Friday, June 24, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

JUNE 24
1896:Harvard University grants educator Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, an honorary master of arts degree.

1901: Nineteen-year-old Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's paintings are exhibited for the first time in a gallery on the prestigious Rue Lafitte in Paris.

1997: The U.S. Air Force releases an exhaustive report on the 1947 "Roswell Incident," attributing witnesses' claims of UFO and alien sightings in the New Mexico desert 50 years earlier to high-altitude balloons and crash dummies.
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