On June 17, 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor aboard the French ship Isere.
In 1972, President Richard Nixon’s eventual downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside the Washington, D.C., Watergate complex.
In 1994, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In 2008, hundreds of same-sex couples got married across California on the first full day that gay marriage became legal.
In 2015, nine people were shot to death in a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina.
In 2019, Iran announced that it was breaking compliance with the international accord that kept it from making nuclear weapons. The Trump administration followed by ordering 1,000 more troops to the Middle East.
