TODAY IN HISTORY

1936 : The United States team refuses to dip the American flag to Adolf Hitler at the opening of the Olympic games in Berlin.

1966: Charles Joseph Whitman kills 14 people and injures 31 at the University of Texas, becoming America’s first mass school shooter.

1981: The Buggles’ music video for the song “Video Killed the Radio Star” is the first to be played on MTV as the channel makes its debut.