May 15, 1972
    

    
    
    
   
During an outdoor rally in Laurel, Maryland, George Wallace,
the governor of Alabama and a presidential candidate, was
shot by 21-year-old Arthur Bremer (above ).

On June 8, Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected
to Congress and one of Wallace’s opponents for the
Democratic nomination, famously visited him in the hospital
to wish him well.   

Wallace remained in the hospital for several months, bringing
his third presidential campaign to an irrevocable end.

George Corley Wallace Jr.

(August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)

                    
ROSS SIMPSON                     

ROSS SIMPSON

Eric Patrick Clapton is an English rock and blues guitarist,
singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most
successful and influential guitarists in rock music.

and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded
as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in
rock music.

TIM MAGUIRE

Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán is 78 years old today.

In 2023, Rolling Stone named him the 11th greatest guitarist
of all time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin
Grammy Awards, and was inducted along with his namesake
band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.     

 
CAMILLE BOHANNON

June 21, 1788: New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last
necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States,
thereby making the document the law of the land.

This date marked the end of government under the Articles
of Confederation and the beginning of the new government
established by the Constitution.