1861, Tennessee seceded from the Union
1864, Abraham Lincoln was nominated by the Republican Party for a second term as President. (Wonder if he would have accepted if he'd known how it would turn out?)
1966, a merger was announced between the National and American football leagues to take effect in 1970
1967, 34 U.S. servicemen were killed when Israeli forces raided the Liberty, a Navy vessel stationed in the Mediterranean. (Israel called it a tragic mistake) ((I wonder how they could have mistaken a US Navy vessel for anything but what it was))
1998, the NRA votes in Charlton Heston as president
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HAPPY MONDAY!
ReplyDelete1867, Frank Lloyd Wright, the famed American architect, was born.
1896 Cleveland asks for inquiry into number of "aliens" in federal employment
1913 Forensic evidence captures a murderous father
1949 FBI report names Hollywood figures as communists
Hollywood figures, including film stars Frederic March, John Garfield, Paul Muni, and Edward G. Robinson, are named in a FBI report as Communist Party members. Such reports helped to fuel the anticommunist hysteria in the United States during the late-1940s and 1950s.
1953 The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
1968 King assassination suspect
arrested
James Earl Ray, an escaped American convict, is arrested in London, England, and charged with the assassination of African American civil rights
1969 The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's uniform No. 7 during "Mickey Mantle Day" at Yankee Stadium.
Oooh, Erika, some good ones there!! Who knew they were using forensic evidence as early as 1913???
ReplyDeleteI know right? I tried to dig a little deeper to find out what they meant by "forensic" by I was at work and got busy. Dang job!
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