On this date in history…

(2010) American writer J.D. Salinger—who was best known for The Catcher in the Rye (1951), which uses humour and colourful language to portray the sensitive, rebellious adolescent Holden Caulfield—died at age 91. (1976) The first episode of the sitcom Laverne and Shirley, a spin-off of Happy Days, aired on ABC; it starred Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall, who later became one of the first women to achieve consistent commercial success as a movie director. (1973) The Paris accord ending the Vietnam War, America‘s longest war to that time, was signed this day in 1973, providing for an exchange of prisoners and for the unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam. (1955) American jurist John G. Roberts, Jr., who served as the 17th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born.  (1945) The Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland, was liberated by Soviet troops. (1885) Jerome Kern, an American composer best known for his musical comedies, was born. (1880) American inventor Thomas Edison patented the  incandescent lamp. (1832) Mathematician and novelist Lewis Carroll, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England.