Thursday, January 28, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 28
1986:America mourns as Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher sent into space, and six others die aboard the space shuttle Challenger.



1908: Julia Ward Howe, writer of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” is the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.


1916: Louis Brandeis is appointed by President Wilson to the Supreme Court. He becomes its first Jewish justice.
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