SEPTEMBER 25
1981:Three days after her unanimous Senate confirmation, Sandra Day O'Connor
is sworn in as a Supreme Court justice by Chief Justice Warren Burger.
O'Connor becomes the first woman to sit on the high court.
1878: British physician Charles Drysdale publishes a letter in the Times that warns of the dangers of smoking tobacco and cites the ill effects of secondhand smoke. Drysdale had already written a book titled Tobacco and the Diseases It Produces
when the London newspapers printed his description of smoking as "the
most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time," decades
before most people took the health hazards of smoking seriously.
1957: Armed with bayonets to keep angry protesters at bay, the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army carries out an order from President Dwight D. Eisenhower
to allow nine African American students, nicknamed the "Little Rock
Nine," to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Exactly 40
years later, President Bill Clinton will hold the door open for those same nine students as they revisit Central High School.
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