Today In History

In 1789: There was a mutiny on The Bounty as the crew of the British ship set Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in the South Pacific.

In 1947: A six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific to Polynesia.

In 1967: Boxing champ Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army, the same day Gen. William C. Westmoreland told Congress the U.S. “would prevail in Vietnam.”