on This Day LEAD STORY Rome founded, 753 B.C. AMERICAN REVOLUTION British attack Danbury, Connecticut, 1777 AUTOMOTIVE GM celebrates 100 millionth U.S.-made car, 1967 CIVIL WAR Steight's Raid begins, 1863 COLD WAR Roy Cohn and David Schine return to U.S., 1953 CRIME Executions resume in California, 1992 DISASTER Prisoners left to burn in Ohio fire, 1930 GENERAL INTEREST The Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 Red Baron killed in action, 1918 Chinese students begin protests at Tiananmen Square, 1989 HOLLYWOOD First movie projector demonstrated in United States, 1895 LITERARY Charlotte Bronte born, 1816 MUSIC "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" tops the U.S. pop charts and creates a cultural phenomenon., 1973 OLD WEST Naturalist John Muir is born, 1838 PRESIDENTIAL Lincoln's funeral train leaves D.C., 1865 SPORTS Rosie Ruiz fakes Boston Marathon win, 1980 VIETNAM WAR Intelligence reveals North Vietnamese units in South Vietnam, 1965 Thieu flees Saigon as Xuan Loc falls, 1975 WORLD WAR I Red Baron killed in action, 1918 WORLD WAR II Red Army overruns German High Command as it approaches the capital, 1945

via Facebook on This Day LEAD STORY Rome founded, 753 B.C. AMERICAN REVOLUTION British attack Danbury, Connecticut, 1777 AUTOMOTIVE GM celebrates 100 millionth U.S.-made car, 1967 CIVIL WAR Steight's Raid begins, 1863 COLD WAR Roy Cohn and David Schine return to U.S., 1953 CRIME Executions resume in California, 1992 DISASTER Prisoners left to burn in Ohio fire, 1930 GENERAL INTEREST The Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 Red Baron killed in action, 1918 Chinese students begin protests at Tiananmen Square, 1989 HOLLYWOOD First movie projector demonstrated in United States, 1895 LITERARY Charlotte Bronte born, 1816 MUSIC "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" tops the U.S. pop charts and creates a cultural phenomenon., 1973 OLD WEST Naturalist John Muir is born, 1838 PRESIDENTIAL Lincoln's funeral train leaves D.C., 1865 SPORTS Rosie Ruiz fakes Boston Marathon win, 1980 VIETNAM WAR Intelligence reveals North Vietnamese units in South Vietnam, 1965 Thieu flees Saigon as Xuan Loc falls, 1975 WORLD WAR I Red Baron killed in action, 1918 WORLD WAR II Red Army overruns German High Command as it approaches the capital, 1945