On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, an intelligence ship sailing in international waters off Egypt, was attacked by Israeli jet planes and torpedo boats.
On this date in history:
In 1789, James Madison proposed the Bill of Rights, which led to the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
In 1869, Ives McGaffney of Chicago obtained a patent for a « sweeping machine », the first vacuum cleaner.
In 1949, an FBI report identified several Hollywood figures — including Frederic March, Dalton Trumbo, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson — as members of the Communist Party. The document’s release came amid a so-called Red Scare in the United States.
In 1967, the USS Liberty, an intelligence ship sailing in international waters off Egypt, was attacked by Israeli jet planes and torpedo boats.
