TODAY IN HISTORY

FEBRUARY 8

1968:Capping four days of protest against a no-blacks-allowed bowling alley, three college students die and 27 are wounded by police in Orangeburg, S.C.

1915: D.W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation, controversial for its racist sentiments, debuts in Los Angeles.

1978: Live from the U.S. Capitol: Senate deliberations are broadcast on the radio for the first time .