Monday, May 18, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

1953:Jackie Cochran becomes the first female pilot to break the sound barrier. Average speed: 652.3 mph.

1980: More than 50 people are dead after Mount St. Helens explodes. President Carter tells reporters: “Somebody said it looked like the moon. But the moon looks like a golf course compared to this.”

1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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