TODAY in HISTORY

1642 — Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., first commencement

1862 — Lincoln’s Emancipation is published in Northern newspapers

1962 — ABC’s first color TV series, “The Jetsons”

1969 — Northern Star starts rumor that Paul McCartney is dead

1973 — Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power

1976 — Ford-Carter TV debate 1976 — Soyuz 22 returns to Earth 1978 — 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit

1979 — Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, New York City

1980 — Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens

1984 — San Francisco 49er Joe Montana misses his first start in 49 games

1988 — Jose Canseco becomes baseball’s 1st to steal 40 bases and hit 40 HRs

1990 — PBS begins an 11-hour miniseries on the Civil War