Under federal troop escort, the Little Rock Nine were escorted back
into Central High School for their first full day of classes. 
 

Under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine black
students entered an all-white High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Three
weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the
school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered
racial integration. After a tense standoff, President Dwight Eisenhower
federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 army troops
to Little Rock to enforce the court order.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivering a special broadcast on
the Little Rock situation.

TIM MAGUIRE

John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison) (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

   
    
  
Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis on the way to Paris.

Crowds race to meet Charles Lindbergh after he lands the Spirit of St. Louis in Paris.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

On May 20, 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland; she
landed in Ireland nearly 15 hours later, becoming the first woman
to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Amelia Mary Earhart  (July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937)

ROSS SIMPSON

NBC’s "Today" show premiered on this day in 1952.

NBC built a "Today" show studio inside the RCA Exhibition
Hall on West 49th Street and dubbed it "the nerve center of
the planet."

On this day in 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married
in a civil ceremony at San Francisco City Hall, where they were
mobbed by reporters and fans. Monroe had apparently mentioned
the wedding plans to someone at her film studio and they leaked it
to the press. The couple spent their wedding night at the Clifton
Motel in Paso Robles, California and later honeymooned in Japan
and Korea. The marriage only lasted nine short months.

DIANE KEPLEY

The very name "Edsel" became a popular symbol for a commercial failure.

Production: 1958 – 1960.