This Day In History

1856	Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was born in Freiberg, Moravia (present-day Pribor, Czech Republic).
1861	Arkansas seceded from the Union.
1882	Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the United States for 10 years.
1889	The Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.
1910	Britain's King Edward VII died.
1942	Some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese during World War II.
1954	Roger Bannister became the first athlete to run a mile in less than four minutes, finishing in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds during a track meet in Oxford, England.
1960	Britain's Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey.
1994	Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in 1991.
1996	The body of former CIA director William E. Colby was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he'd disappeared.
1997	Hemophiliacs who contracted AIDS between 1978 and 1985 from tainted blood products accepted a $600 million settlement from four health-care companies.
2001	Pope John Paul II, during a trip to Syria, became the first pope to enter a mosque.
2002	Right-wing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed in Hilversum, Netherlands.
2002	Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was freed after 19 months of house arrest.
2004	An estimated 51.1 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of "Friends" on NBC.