Today in History

37 
On a trip to the Italian mainland from his home on Capreae, the emperor Tiberius dies on the Bay of Naples.
1190
The Crusades begin the massacre of Jews in York, England.
1527
The Emperor Babur defeats the Rajputs at the Battle of Kanvaha, removing the main Hindu rivals in Northern India.
1621
The first Indian appears to colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1833 
Susan Hayhurst becomes the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college.
1850
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is published.
1865
Union troops push past Confederate blockers at the Battle of Averasborough, N.C.
1907
The British cruiser Invincible, the world's largest, is completed at Glasgow shipyards.
1913 
The 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania is launched at Newport News, Va.
1917
Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates his throne.
1926 
Physicist Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket.
1928 
The United States plans to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.
1935
Adolf Hitler orders a German rearmament and violates the Versailles Treaty.
1939
Germany occupies the rest Czechoslovakia.
1945
Iwo Jima is declared secure by U.S. forces although small pockets of Japanese resistance still exist.
1954
CBS introduces The Morning Show hosted by Walter Cornet to compete with NBC's Today Show.
1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson submits a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
1968
U.S. troops in Vietnam destroy a village consisting mostly of women and children, the action is remembered as the My-Lai massacre.
1984
Mozambique and South Africa sign a pact banning support for one another's internal foes.
1985
Associated Press newsman, Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut.