Dem lawmaker says ‘female bodies are just as strong
and fast’ as male bodies.

Pennsylvania Democrat state senator Lindsey Williams
gave controversial testimony at the state capitol on
Wednesday while opposing a bill that would ban trans
athletes from girls sports.

The west Pacific volcanic island of Iwo Jima was declared
secured by the U.S. military after weeks of fiercely fighting
its Japanese defenders.

The Americans began applying pressure to the Japanese
defense of Iwo Jima in February 1944, when B-24 and B-25
bombers raided the island for 74 days straight.

When all was done, more than 6,000 Marines died fighting for the
island, along with almost all the 21,000 Japanese soldiers trying
to defend it.

Dome observation car at the rear of Union Pacific’s City of Portland passenger train was added in 1955.    
   
The City of Portland was a named passenger train on the Union
Pacific Railroad between Chicago, Illinois, and Portland, Oregon.

The first trip for the train left Portland on June 6, 1935.

The Silver Dome was the first modern dome.

On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas
Salk announced on a national radio program that he has
successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the
virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.

In 1952—an epidemic year for polio—there were 58,000 new
cases reported in the United States, and more than 3,000
died from the disease.

For his work in helping to eradicate the disease, which is
known as “infant paralysis” because it mainly affects young
children, Dr. Salk was celebrated as the great doctor-
benefactor of his time.