Todayâs Highlight in History: On June 9, 1969, the Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren. On this date: In 1588, construction began on the present-day Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy, with the laying of the first stone; the structure was completed in 1591. In 1870, author Charles Dickens died in Gadâs Hill Place, England. In 1940, during World War II, Norway decided to surrender to the Nazis, effective at midnight. In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943, which reintroduced federal income tax withholding from paychecks. In 1954, during the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berated Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., asking: âHave you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?â