Today:
1788: Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1789: The mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs near Tofua.
1919: The League of Nations is established.
1945: Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian partisans.
1952: The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, ending the occupation of Japan.
1965: United States troops land in the Dominican Republic.
1967: Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the U.S. Army.
1994: Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union.
2001: Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist.
2004: The first Abu Ghraib torture pictures are published.