President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that
created the U.S. Post Office.

The actual 1792 Postal Act.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1966, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his
second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn,
in 1954.

The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic
relations for the first time on this day in 1933.

William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (January 25, 1891 – February 15, 1967)

On this day in 2001, a second Anthrax letter found addressed to
Capitol Hill.

A hazmat team at the Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.

William Holden (William Franklin Beedle Jr.)  
(April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981)

According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s autopsy
report, Holden was alone and intoxicated in his apartment
in Santa Monica, California, on November 12, 1981, when
he slipped on a rug, severely lacerating his forehead on a 
bedside table, and bled to death. His body was found four
days later on this day in 1981.

William Holden in The Wild Bunch (1969)

The musical "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on this day in 1959.

MIKE GRACIA

Thomas Edison invented a workable electric incandescent lamp on this day in
1879. It would last 13 1/2 hours before it would burn out.

Anthrax scare claims first two U.S. Postal workers in Washington,
D.C. on this day in 2001.

The Battle of Trafalgar occurred off the coast of Spain on this day in 1805. The British defeated the French and Spanish fleet.

SANDY KOZEL

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his last speech just 24 hours
before he was assassinated.

It was on this day in 1936 when Bruno Richard Hauptmann was
executed. 

Aviator Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son, Charles Lindbergh, Jr.

On this day in 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan, into law.

Marlon Brando (1940) military school photo.

Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)

The United States Post Office Department issued a stamp honoring African-
American educator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) as part of its Famous
Americans Series. The nation’s first stamp to honor an African-American, it
holds a unique place in American history.

Born a slave in Hale’s Ford, Virginia, Washington served as a role model for
other struggling African-Americans, and, as founder of Alabama’s Tuskegee
Normal Industrial School (renamed Tuskegee Institute in 1937), he profoundly
influenced the community’s self-esteem and self-reliance.

In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, responding to numerous petitions
from African-American supporters, recognized the timeliness of such a stamp
and directed that Washington be considered for this important stamp series.

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