Today in history
1760: Britain's King George III succeeded his late grandfather, George II.
1854: The "Charge of the Light Brigade" took place during the Crimean War as over 600 English soldiers charged the Russian army, suffering heavy losses.
1929: Former Interior Secretary Albert Fall was convicted in Washington, D.C., of accepting a $100,000 bribe from oil tycoon Edward Doheny. (Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000.)
1962: During a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson II demanded that Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin confirm or deny the existence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba.
1971: The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit China and expel Taiwan.
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