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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 11, 1862, during the Civil War, the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia was scuttled by its crew off Craney Island, Va., to prevent it from falling into Union hands.
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• On this date:
• In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.
• In 1812, British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham, who was hanged a week later.
• In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
• In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
• In 1937, "SPAM" was registered as a trademark by Hormel Foods, producer of the canned meat product.
• In 1946, the first CARE packages arrived in Europe, at Le Havre, France.
• In 1950, President Harry S. Truman formally dedicated the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state.
• In 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• In 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the "Pentagon Papers" case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct.
• In 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Cats" opened in London.
• In 1987, doctors in Baltimore transplanted the heart and lungs of an auto accident victim to a patient who gave up his own heart to another recipient. (Clinton House, the nation's first living heart donor, died 14 months later.)
• In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
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• Ten years ago: Israel pulled out of the West Bank town of Tulkarem (tuhl-KA'-rum), leaving Palestinian-run territories free of Israeli troops for the first time in six weeks. Joseph Bonanno, the notorious gangster known as "Joe Bananas," died in Tucson, Ariz., at age 97.
• Five years ago: Speaking aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Persian Gulf, Vice President Dick Cheney warned Iran the U.S. and its allies would

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