On this day in 1957, the California State Superior Court ruled that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
On this day in 1985, the Space Shuttle Atlantis made its maiden flight.
On this day in 1995, O. J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
On this day in 2013, at least 134 migrants were killed when their boat sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa.