Today In History

In 1634: Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.

In 1865: During the Civil War, Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman in Virginia.

In 1894: Jacob S. Coxey began leading an “army” of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.

In 1911: In a tragedy that galvanized America’s labor movement, 146 immigrant workers were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York.

In 1947: A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill., claimed 111 lives.

In 1965: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

In 1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness. The nephew was beheaded the following June.

In 1994: American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.