In 1898, Spain agreed to peace protocols with the United States, bringing an end to the Spanish-American War.
In 1953, the USSR detonated the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
In 2017, one person was killed and several others injured when a car was driven into a crowd of counterprotesters during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
BIRTHDAYS
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), author/…