TODAY IN HISTORY

1957:President Dwight Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to hold back an angry mob as nine African American students, who come to be known as the Little Rock Nine, enter Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.

1789: The first United States Congress answers criticisms of the Constitution by approving 12 amendments for state ratification. Ten become the Bill of Rights.

1919: President Woodrow Wilson collapses from exhaustion in Pueblo, Colo., ending his whistle-stop tour to drum up support for the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.