On This Day in History

In 1593, France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

In 1750, Henry Knox, American Revolutionary war general and first U.S. Secretary of War, was born.

In 2000, a New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground. Meanwhile, Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket. Coincidence? You be the judge.