Today In History

1896: Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, through the streets of Detroit.

1942: The Battle of Midway began during World War II.

1947: The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Taft-Hartley Act.

1985: The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law providing for a daily minute of silence in public schools.

1989: Hundreds - possibly thousands - of people died as Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement.

1989: A gas explosion in the Soviet Union engulfed two passing trains, killing 645.

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