On this day in history
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1776: British forces evacuate from Boston to Nova Scotia.
1886: Twenty African Americans are killed in the Carrollton Massacre in Mississippi.
1905: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York.
1914: Russia increases the number of active duty military from 460,000 to 1,700,000.
1930: Mob boss Al Capone is released from jail.
1942: The Nazis begin deporting Jews to the Belsen camp.
1944: The U.S. Eighth Air Force bombs Vienna.
1959: The 14th Dalai Lama flees Tibet and goes to India.
1961: The United States increases military aid and technicians to Laos.
1962: The Soviet Union asks the United States to pull out of South Vietnam.
1966: A U.S. submarine locates a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean.
1970: The Army charges 14 officers with suppression of facts in the My Lai massacre case.
1972: Nixon asks Congress to halt busing in order to achieve desegregation.
1973: Twenty are killed in Cambodia when a bomb goes off that was meant for the Cambodian President Lon Nol.
1973: First POWs are released from the "Hanoi Hilton" in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
1985: President Ronald Reagan agrees to a joint study with Canada on acid rain.
1992: White South Africans approve constitutional reforms giving legal equality to blacks.
Source: HistoryNet.com
