Today In History

Fri., Dec. 11, 1998

In 1792: France’s King Louis XVI went before the Convention to face charges of treason. (Convicted, he was executed the following month.) In 1816: Indiana became the 19th state.

In 1872: America’s first black governor took office as Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became acting governor of Louisiana.

In 1928: Police in Brazil thwarted an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover’s life.

In 1936: Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

In 1941: Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, which responded in kind.

In 1961: A U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon - the first direct American military support for South Vietnam’s battle against Communist guerrillas.

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