Global Windows History

Year	Event
1998	Former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy pleaded innocent to charges of accepting $35,000 in sports tickets, travel and lodging from companies regulated by the Agriculture Department.
1994	First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out at what she called standpat, negative, nay-saying opponents of health reform in an address to state legislators at George Washington University.
1989	Steffi Graf of West Germany achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970 by winning the US Open women's final.
1977	Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, became the last person to date to be executed by the guillotine in France.
1963	20 black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Alabama, following a standoff between federal authorities and Governor George C.
1955	Gunsmoke premiered on CBS television.
1948	American-born Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio broadcaster Axis Sally, was indicted in Washington DC for treason.
1945	Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis.
1939	Canada declared war on Germany.
1846	Elias Howe of Spencer, Massachusetts, received a patent for his sewing machine.
1608	John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.