What Happened On This Day In History?

1846

U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearney captured Santa Fe, N.M.

1894

Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.

1914

President Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.

1920

Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed the right of all American women to vote.

1954

Assistant Secretary of Labor James E. Wilkins became the first black to attend a meeting of a president's Cabinet as he sat in for Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell.

1958

The novel ''Lolita'' by Vladimir Nabokov was published.

1963

James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

1963

James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

1983

Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 22 dead and causing more than $1 billion damage.

1988

Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle was nominated as George Bush's running mate during the Republican convention in New Orleans.

1989

In Colombia, leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan was assassinated outside Bogota; the Medellin drug cartel was strongly suspected.

1991

Soviet hard-liners launched a coup aimed at toppling President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who was vacationing in the Crimea. The coup collapsed three days later.

1997

Beth Ann Hogan became the first coed in the Virginia Military Institute's 158-year history.

1227

The Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.