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• On this date:
• In A.D. 68, the Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide, ending a 13-year reign.
• In 1863, a two-day meeting began in New York City to found the United States Veterinary Medical Association (now the American Veterinary Medical Association).
• In 1870, author Charles Dickens died in Gad's Hill Place, England.
• In 1911, Carrie (sometimes spelled "Carry") A. Nation, the hatchet-wielding temperance crusader, died in Leavenworth, Kan., at age 64.
• In 1940, during World War II, Norway decided to surrender to the Nazis, effective at midnight.
• In 1943, the federal government began withholding income tax from paychecks.
• In 1953, 94 people died when a tornado struck Worcester (WU'-stur), Mass.
• In 1954, during the Senate-Army Hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berated Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., for verbally attacking a member of Welch's law firm, Fred Fisher, asking McCarthy: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
• In 1969, the Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren.

• In 1978, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
• In 1983, Britain's Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a decisive election victory.
• In 1993, as millions of Japanese watched on television, Crown Prince Naruhito (nah-ROOSH'-doh) wed commoner Masako Owada in an elaborate Shinto religious ceremony. The science-fiction film "Jurassic Park," directed by Steven Spielberg, had its world premiere in Washington, D.C.
• Ten years ago: As rebels bore down on the capital of Liberia, French helicopters rescued more than 500 Americans, Europeans and other foreigners. The New Jersey Devils won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Anaheim Mighty Ducks 3-0 in Game 7.
• Five years ago: Tiffany Hall pleaded guilty in Belleville, Ill., to killing her pregnant friend, Jimella Tunstall, the victim's unborn child and three children in a plea deal that allowed her to avoid the death penalty. A growing number of supermarkets and restaurants yanked three varieties of tomatoes from their shelves and dishes amid concerns about a 17-state salmonella outbreak. Ken Griffey Jr. became the sixth player in baseball history to reach 600 homers in the first inning of the Cincinnati Reds' 9-4 victory over the Florida Marlins.

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