1860:Abraham Lincoln, a former one-term Illinois congressman, is nominated as candidate for U.S. president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1896: In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules 7-1 that racially segregated "separate but equal" railroad cars do not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. The decision would sanction decades of discrimination against African Americans until it was overturned in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954.
1952: University of Chicago professor Willard Libby, a pioneer of the technique of carbon dating, estimates the age of Stonehenge, the monumental stone structures on England's Salisbury Plain, to about 1848 B.C., plus or minus 275 years.
1896: In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules 7-1 that racially segregated "separate but equal" railroad cars do not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. The decision would sanction decades of discrimination against African Americans until it was overturned in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954.
1952: University of Chicago professor Willard Libby, a pioneer of the technique of carbon dating, estimates the age of Stonehenge, the monumental stone structures on England's Salisbury Plain, to about 1848 B.C., plus or minus 275 years.
1980:Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington.
1953:Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1931:Jockey legend Eddie Arcaro rode his first horse race (Bainbridge, OH)
1852:Massachusetts makes it mandatory that all school-age children must attend school
1953:Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1931:Jockey legend Eddie Arcaro rode his first horse race (Bainbridge, OH)
1852:Massachusetts makes it mandatory that all school-age children must attend school
1933:Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the Tennessee Valley Authority, bringing electricity and other economic advantages to the region
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