On this day in 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
It was on this day in 1959.
On this day in 1847, Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877)
The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean on this day in 1969.
United States President Richard Nixon was in the central Pacific recovery area to welcome the Apollo 11 astronauts aboard the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, on July 24, 1969. The Apollo 11 astronauts are, from left, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. The crew was quarantined after splashdown to ensure they did not bring back any contamination from the moon.
On this day in 1945, the United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.
On this day in 1973, Alexander P. Butterfield informed the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair of the existence of President Nixon’s recorded White House tapes.
Alexander Porter Butterfield testifying before the Senate committee.
It was on this day in 1999.
On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
The Apollo 11 lunar landing mission crew, from left to right, Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot.
After a highly publicized six-week jury trial, Martha Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of felony charges of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to the federal investigators, and was sentenced July 16, 2004 to serve a five-month term in a federal correctional facility and supervised release for a two-year period (to include five months of electronic monitoring)
Inmates sit in their bunks at a women’s prison in Alabama.
At Appomattox Court House, Virginia on this day in 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of Wilmer McClean’s home. Grant allowed Rebel officers to keep their side arms and permitted soldiers to keep their horses and mules. Though there were still Confederate armies in the field, the war was officially over. The four years of fighting had killed 360,000 Union troops and 260,000 Confederate troops.
On this day in 2003, Saddam Hussein’s statue is toppled in Baghdad.
NASA announced the selection of America’s first seven astronauts on this day in 1959.
On this day in 1939, Marian Anderson sang a landmark 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, and blazed a trail for other black classical singers.
More than 75,000 people come to the Lincoln Memorial on that Easter Sunday to hear Anderson. She had been scheduled to sing at Washington’s Constitution Hall, but the Daughters of the American Revolution, a political organization that helped manage the concert hall, denied her the right to perform because of her race. Instead, and at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt who had resigned the DAR in protest of their decision, Marian performed a free open air-concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
Marian Anderson(February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993)
Britain’s Prince Charles with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall acknowledges the crowd at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in England following their wedding on this day in 2005.
