This Day in History

1770: The Boston Massacre takes place, with British troops firing into a Boston mob, killing 5.
1868: The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson begins.
1933: Newly inaugurated Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a bank holiday, temporarily closing the nation's banks.
1946: Former British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, speaking in Fulton, MO, states that "an iron curtain has descended" across Europe.
1953: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin dies in Moscow.
1955: Jazz musician and composer Charlie Parker plays publicly for the last time at Birdland, a New York City nightclub named in his honor.
1979: The space probe Voyager 1 encounters Jupiter, relaying data on its rings and moons.
2001: 15 year-old Charles Andrew Williams shoots 15 people -- 2 fatally -- at his high school in Santee, CA.
2002: Pres. George W. Bush imposes steel tariffs of up to 30 percent, angering the European Union and other members of the World Trade Organization.
2003: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills himself and 16 others on a Haifa bus.
2004: Home style entrepreneur Martha Stewart is convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice for lying to federal investigators about her sale of ImClone stock.