Today In History

In 1881: President Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield died two months later.

In 1890: Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.

In 1937: Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.

In 1961: Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.

In 1964: President Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill.

In 1976: The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.