On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Click here for more Today in History.
In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory.In 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.
In 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of some 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II. In 1954, explosions rocked the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors. at The Record Plant in New York City . In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. but said the 18,000 same-sex weddings that had taken place before the prohibition passed were still valid., the brutal Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys, was arrested after a 16-year manhunt.
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