Today:
1149 — Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch, was killed at the Battle of Inab.
1613 — London’s Globe Theatre burned down during a performance of Henry VIII.
1776 — Virginia adopted its first state constitution during the American Revolution.
1855 — The Daily Telegraph was first published in London.
1880 — France officially adopted “La Marseillaise” as its national anthem.
1927 — The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps plane, completed the first transpacific flight from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
1956 — Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in White Plains, New York.
1972 — In Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty, as then applied, was unconstitutional.
2007 — Apple released the first iPhone in the United States.
2014 — The Islamic State declared the establishment of a caliphate in territory it controlled in Iraq and Syria.