Today In History

1969: Peace demonstrators staged activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White House, seeking a moratorium on the Vietnam War.

1914: The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed.

1917: Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer who had spied for the Germans, was executed outside Paris by a French firing squad.

1928: The German dirigible Graf Zeppelin landed in Lakehurst, N.J., on its first commercial flight across the Atlantic.