JUNE 11
2001:Timothy McVeigh is executed by lethal injection in Terra Haute, Ind., for orchestrating the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which killed 168 people. McVeigh is the first federal prisoner to receive the death penalty since 1963.
1912: "Daredevil of the Sky" Silas Christofferson makes the first known airplane takeoff from the roof of a building, flying his Curtiss Pusher Biplane off the roof of the Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Ore.
1963: Alabama Gov. George Wallace is forced to step aside as African American students Vivian Malone and James Hood enroll in the University of Alabama. President John F. Kennedy had sent the National Guard to help Malone and Hood enroll, ending Wallace's defiance of a court order to integrate the state university.
1912: "Daredevil of the Sky" Silas Christofferson makes the first known airplane takeoff from the roof of a building, flying his Curtiss Pusher Biplane off the roof of the Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Ore.
1963: Alabama Gov. George Wallace is forced to step aside as African American students Vivian Malone and James Hood enroll in the University of Alabama. President John F. Kennedy had sent the National Guard to help Malone and Hood enroll, ending Wallace's defiance of a court order to integrate the state university.
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