Today In History

In 1854: Henry David Thoreau published “Walden,” describing his experience of living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts.

In 1936: Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics.

In 1945: Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, the United States exploded a nuclear device over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people.

In 1969: Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally murdered in Tate’s Los Angeles home. Cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his disciples were later convicted of the crime.