On this day . . .
1492 – Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.
1609 – The song “Three Blind Mice” is published in London, believed to be the earliest printed secular song.
1809 – Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under mysterious circumstances in Tennessee.
1933 – Alcatraz Island is made a federal maximum security prison.
1949 – Eugenie Anderson becomes the first woman U.S. ambassador.
1960 – Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated during a live TV broadcast.
1964 – USSR launches Voskhod I, first spacecraft with multi-person crew; it is also the first mission in which the crew did not wear space suits.
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