On this day in 1963, President Johnson (below) named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
In this 1964 file photo, the bipartisan presidential commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy sits for an official picture, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars office on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP)
President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The U.N. General Assembly on this day in 1947, passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd on this day in 1929.
A Ford Trimotor aircraft, the Floyd Bennett (S/N NX4542), was selected for the epic polar air journey.