America’s Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market on this day in 1929.
A crowd of people gather outside the New York Stock Exchange following the Crash of 1929.
On this day in 1998, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board. Glenn was 77 years old at the time. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
The crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery (front row) Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai and Mission Commander Curt Brown; Payload SpecialistJohn Glenn; (C) and Mission Specialist Pedro Duque depart the Operations & Checkout building and head to the Space Shuttle Discovery to begin their mission into space from the Kennedy Space Center, FL.
John Glenn (left) and Stephen Oswald sitting in the flight deck of Space Shuttle Discovery.
President George W. Bush addresses the nation following the 9/11 attacks.
President George W. Bush with firefighter Bob Beckwith standing in standing in front of the collapsed World Trade Center buildings.
Johnny Cash and wife June Carter.
John R. Cash(February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003)
While hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Johnny Cash died of complications from diabetes at approximately 2:00 a.m. CT on September 12, 2003, aged 71, less than four months after his wife. It was suggested that his health worsened due to a broken heart over June’s death.
On this day in 1948, U.S. President Truman signed executive orders that prohibited discrimination in the U.S. armed forces and federal employment.
Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba on this day in 1953. Castro eventually ousted Batista six years later.
Former Cuban political leader and communist revolutionary, Fidel Castro (center).
It was on this day in 1952.
Eva MarÃa Duarte de Perón(May 7, 1919 – July 26, 1952)
George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950)
Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923).
Sir Michael Philip Jagger is 75 today.
Mick Jagger is one of the most influential figures in the history of rock and roll as frontman of the Rolling Stones, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hallof Fame with the Stones in 1989.He met future Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in primary school.
