Today In History

In 1614: American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.

In 1856: Black educator Booker T. Washington was born in Franklin County, Va.

In 1887: British historian Lord Acton wrote, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

In 1887: in Tuscumbia, Ala., teacher Anne Sullivan taught her blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller, the meaning of the word “water” as spelled out in the manual alphabet.

In 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death following their conviction on charges of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.