On this day in 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the G.I.
Bill, an act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of
the armed services for their efforts in World War ll.
As the last of its sweeping New Deal reforms, Roosevelt’s administration
created the G.I. Bill, officially the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944,
hoping to avoid a relapse into the Great Depression after the war ended.
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It was on this day in 1964.
The bodies of the three civil rights workers found in an earthen dam
in Mississippi on August 4, 1964.
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BOHANNON
On this day in 1943,race-related rioting erupted in Detroit, MI. Federal troops were sent in two days later to end the violence that left more
than 30 dead.
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BOHANNON
Sir James Paul McCartney is 77 years old today.
Paul McCartney is an English singer-songwriter, multi-
instrumentalist, and composer. He gained worldwide
fame as the bass guitarist and singer for the rock band
the Beatles, widely considered the most popular and
influential group in the history of popular music. Paul
is one of the most successful performers of all time
and has written, or co-written, 32 songs that have
reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
