TODAY IN HISTORY

Lead Story

Lascaux cave paintings discovered, 1940

American Revolution

Congress receives news of defeat at Brandywine, 1777

Automotive

New floating bridge opens in Seattle; I-90 stretches from coast to coast, 1993

Civil War

The First Battle of Lexington, Missouri, begins, 1861

Cold War

German occupation rights are relinquished, 1990

Crime

Tyco execs indicted, 2002

Disaster

Hurricane Gilbert slams Jamaica, 1988

General Interest

Khrushchev elected Soviet leader, 1953

JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 1953

Violence in Boston over racial busing, 1974

Steven Biko dies, 1977

Hollywood

Season One of Entourage--a TV show about life in Hollywood--comes to an end, 2004

Literary

Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elope, 1846

Music

Barry White is born, 1944

Old West

Hopalong Cassidy rides off into his last sunset, 1972

Presidential

John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island, 1953

Sports

Sugar Ray Robinson wins back belt, 1951

Vietnam War

Situation deteriorates in South Vietnam, 1959

U.S. intelligence agencies report 100,000 troops in the South, 1972

World War I

U.S. launches Saint-Mihiel offensive , 1918

World War II

The Laconia is su