During an outdoor rally in Laurel, Maryland on May 15, 1972,
George Wallace, the governor of Alabama and a presidential
candidate, was shot by 21-year-old Arthur Bremer. Three
others were wounded, and  Wallace was left paralyzed from
the waist down.

Michigan and Maryland. 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. He remained in the
hospital for several months, bringing his third presidential
campaign to an irrevocable end.

Arthur Herman Bremer will be 73 August
21.

After 35 years of incarceration, Bremer was
released from prison on November 9, 2007.

George Corley Wallace Jr.
(August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)

On May 11, 1947, the B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio,
announced it had developed a tubeless tire, a technological
innovation that would make automobiles safer and more
efficient.

The culmination of more than three years of engineering,
Goodrich’s tubeless tire effectively eliminated the inner
tube, trapping the pressurized air within the tire walls
themselves. By reinforcing those walls, the company
claimed, they were able to combine the puncture-sealing
features of inner tubes with an improved ease of riding,
high resistance to bruising and superior retention of air
pressure.

1920 – Life  Cover – Engagement – J F Kernan – January 29.

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Singer Madonna Louise Ciccone is 64 years young today.

The singer, songwriter, and actress is referred to as the "Queen
of Pop". Rolling Stone listed her among its greatest artists and
greatest songwriters of all time.