Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"

George Santayana

• 2008 NASA's Phoenix spacecraft lands in the polar region on Mars.
• 1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews.
• 1986 Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to New York.
• 1973 U.S. launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz.
• 1964 Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitutional.
• 1961 John F. Kennedy sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade.
• 1959 Supreme court rules law prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional.
• 1953 1st non-commercial educational television station, Houston, Texas.
• 1945 Arthur C. Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
• 1921 The incorporation of Eatonville, founded in the 1880s as a town controlled by African-Americans, was approved today by the Florida Legislature.
• 1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ.
• 1843 Tallahassee was swept by a devastating fire today as homes and businesses were leveled. The damage was appraised at approximately $650,000.