This day in history

San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, is hit by a huge earthquake, with an excess of a 1,000 people feared dead.
 

L. Douglas Wilder is elected governor of Richmond, Virginia in the U.S.A. He becomes the first African American governor.
 

American President Richard Nixon announces that 70,000 U.S. troops will leave South Vietnam over the next three months.
 

Over 9,000 scientists from 44 different countries petition the UN to end the testing of nuclear weapons.
 

In France, Emile Zola's, ‘J'accuse,’ is printed. The article exposes a military cover-up regarding The Dreyfus Affair.