This Day In History
- 1886 Poet Emily Dickinson died iat age 55.
- 1918 U.S. airmail began service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
- 1930 Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo.
- 1940 Nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States.
- 1942 Gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 states, limiting sales to 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.
- 1948 Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
- 1964 The Smothers Brothers, Dick and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.
- 1969 Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees.
- 1970 Two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
- 1972 George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Laurel, Md.
- 1988 The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan.
- 1995 Dow Corning Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing potentially astronomical expenses from liability lawsuits.
- 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole announced he was leaving the Senate after 27 years to challenge President Clinton full time.
- 2001 A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop.
- 2003 Texas Democrats boarded two buses and returned home after a self-imposed four-day exile in Oklahoma that temporarily succeeded in killing a redistricting plan they opposed.
- 1923 Richard Avedon (photographer: famous for his 1960s and ’70s ‘up-against-the-wall’ pictures of celebrities and politicians)
- 1936 Anna Maria Alberghetti (singer, Tony Award-winning actress: Carnival [1962]; Cinderfella)
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