On this day in 1991, basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson stuns the world by announcing his sudden retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers, after testing positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. At the time, many Americans viewed AIDS as a gay white man's disease. Johnson (1959- ), who is African American and heterosexual, was one of the first sports stars to go public about his HIV-positive status. Read more...
American Revolution
1776 : Post office stays in the Franklin family
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/post-office-stays-in-the-franklin-family
Automotive
1965 : Art Arfons sets land-speed record
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/art-arfons-sets-land-speed-record
Civil War
1861 : North and South clash at the Battle of Belmont
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-belmont-missouri
Cold War
1957 : Gaither Report calls for more U.S. missiles and fallout shelters
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gaither-report-calls-for-more-us-missiles-and-fallout-shelters
Crime
1983 : A family is brutally murdered
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-family-is-brutally-murdered
Disaster
1940 : Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tacoma-narrows-bridge-collapses
General Interest
1885 : Canada's transcontinental railway completed
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/canadas-transcontinental-railway-completed
1940 : Tacoma Bridge collapses
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tacoma-bridge-collapses
1944 : FDR reelected a record third time
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-reelected-a-record-third-time
1989 : Two African American firsts in politics
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/two-african-american-firsts-in-politics
Hollywood
1980 : "King of Cool" Steve McQueen dies
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-of-cool-steve-mcqueen-dies
Literary
1913 : French novelist Albert Camus is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/french-novelist-albert-camus-is-born
Music
1943 : Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/singer-songwriter-joni-mitchell-is-born
Old West
1916 : Jeannette Rankin becomes first U.S. congresswoman
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jeannette-rankin-becomes-first-us-congresswoman
Presidential
1944 : FDR wins unprecedented fourth term
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-wins-unprecedented-fourth-term
Sports
1991 : Magic Johnson announces he has HIV
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/magic-johnson-announces-he-has-hiv
Vietnam War
1964 : U.S. intelligence asserts numbers of North Vietnamese in South Vietnam growing
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-intelligence-asserts-numbers-of-north-vietnamese-in-south-vietnam-growing
1966 : McNamara shouted down at Harvard speech
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mcnamara-shouted-down-at-harvard-speech
1972 : Nixon re-elected president
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-re-elected-president
World War I
1914 : First issue of The New Republic published
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-issue-of-the-new-republic-published
World War II
1944 : Soviet master spy is hanged by the Japanese
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviet-master-spy-is-hanged-by-the-japanese
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