Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission,was launched with
astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Jr.; Donn F. Eisele; and Walter
Cunningham aboard.
Under the command of Schirra, the crew of Apollo 7 conducted
an 11-day orbit of Earth, during which the crew transmitted the
first live television broadcasts from orbit.
Chief Justice Earl Warren swore in Thurgood Marshall, the first
Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel for
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People in the 1940s and ’50s.
Marshall was the architect and executor of the legal strategy
that ended the era of official racial segregation.
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall
(July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993)
Launching from the Japanese sub I-25 (like below) Nobuo
Fujita piloted his light aircraft over the state of Oregon near
Brookings and firebombed Mount Emily, starting a forest fire.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately called for a news
blackout for the sake of morale. No long-term damage was
done, and Fujita eventually went home to train navy pilots for
the rest of the war.
It was the first-ever aerial bombing on the US mainland.
Nobuo Fujita standing by his Yokosuka E14Y "Glen"
seaplane.
During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early
morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists
stormed the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes,
killing two and taking nine others hostage.
The terrorists were part of a group known as Black September,
in return for the release of the hostages, they demanded that
Israel release over 230 Arab prisoners being held in Israeli jails
and two German terrorists.
In an ensuing shootout at the Munich airport, the nine Israeli
hostages were killed along with five terrorists and one West
German policeman. Olympic competition was suspended for
24 hours to hold memorial services for the slain athletes.
In the aftermath of the murders at the ’72 Olympics, the Israeli government, headed by Golda Meir, hired a group of Mossad
agents to track down and kill the Black September assassins.
Jim McKay pictured reporting from the 1972 summer
Olympics in Munich.
The 2005 Stephen Spielberg movie Munich was based
on these events.
Though he had landed on the beaches of Normandy and been
wounded in battle fighting with the U.S. Army, Staff Sergeant
Marcario GarcÃa was not yet a U.S. citizen when President
Harry S. Truman awarded him the Medal of Honor on August
23, 1945. GarcÃa became the first Mexican national to receive
the American military’s highest honor.
President Truman honoring Macario Garcia.
