1912:Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 59 minutes. Less than a year earlier, Quimby had become the first American aviatrix to earn a pilot’s license.
1917: Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia after nearly 10 years of exile; he will help lead the Bolshevik revolutionaries to depose Russia’s Provisional Government, setting up a communist state — the Soviet Union — in its place.
1963: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., writes his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” where he had been imprisoned for participating in a protest against racial segregation. The open letter includes the immortal lines, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
1945:The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.
1943:Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
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