Playwright August Wilson died in Seattle at age 60. In 2005, a tour boat, the Ethan Allen, capsized on New York’s Lake George, killing 20 elderly passengers. (John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were finally arrested for killing 10 people and wounding three others Muhammad was executed in 2009 Malvo was sentenced to life in prison.) In 2002, the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks began, setting off a frantic manhunt lasting three weeks. In 1986, the Senate joined the House in voting to override President Reagan’s veto of stiff economic sanctions against South Africa. (Miller was tried three times he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was released after nine years.) Miller became the first FBI agent to be arrested and charged with espionage. In 1970, one of two chartered twin-engine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colo., killing 31 of the 40 people on board. Supreme Court as the court opened its new term. In 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn as an associate justice of the U.S. In 1944, German troops crushed the 2-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people had been killed. In 1941, during World War II, German armies launched an all-out drive against Moscow Soviet forces succeeded in holding onto their capital. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side. In 1890, comedian Groucho Marx was born Julius Marx in New York.
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