This Day in History...

* 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy in Milan. * 1865, arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi. * 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal on all remaining charges. * 1960, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow. * 1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing. * 1978, the first legal casino in the eastern U.S. opened in Atlantic City, N.J. * 2001, Republicans and moderate Democrats drove a sweeping $1.35 trillion, 10-year tax cut through Congress, handing President Bush a political triumph. * 2005, President Bush received Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House; Bush called Abbas a courageous democratic reformer and bolstered his standing at home with $50 million in assistance.