1859 The opera ”Faust” by Charles Gounod premiered in Paris.
1891 Earl Warren, governor of California and the 14th chief justice of the United States, was born in Los Angeles.
1917 The Supreme Court upheld the eight-hour work day for railroads.
1918 Congress approved daylight-saving time.
1920 The U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles for a second time.
1931 [...]

Marilyn Monroe’s apparent suicide could have been the result of an elaborate plot that tricked her into killing herself hatched in the knowledge of Robert Kennedy, her sometime lover and US attorney general, claim secret FBI files.
‘Marilyn Monroe given suicide drug by Rat Pack friend’
The report suggests Marilyn Monroe was encouraged to stage a suicide [...]