MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2014: French film director Alain Resnais—who was a leader of the New Wave of unorthodox influential movie directors in France in the late 1950s—died at age 91. [Test your knowledge of films.]

2005: In a major capital punishment case, the U.S. Supreme Courtruled that it was unconstitutional to execute convicts who were under age 18 at the time of their crimes. [ Read about cruel and unusual punishments.]

1994: Justin Bieber, a Canadian singer noted for his fresh-faced good looks and appealing pop songs, was born in Stratford, Ontario. [Take our quiz about pop music.]

1961: The Peace Corps was established by U.S. President John F. Kennedy by means of his Peace Corps Act. [Test your knowledge of U.S. presidents.]

1954: American filmmaker Ron Howard , who first achieved fame as a child actor and later became an Academy Award-winning director, was born. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about movies.]

1936: After five years of construction, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River at the Arizona–Nevada border was completed; it is the highest concrete arch dam in the United States. [How much do you know about U.S. history?]