This Day in History
1957: Federal troops sent into Little Rock, Arkansas
On this day in 1957 racial desegregation took centre stage when federal troops were dispatched to Little Rock, Arkansas, to maintain order and enforce the right of black students to attend the local public high school.
More events on this day
1993: Norodom Sihanouk was crowned king of Cambodia for the second time.
1960: The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, was launched by the United States.
1938: Don Budge won the U.S. Open, becoming the first player to win a grand slam title in tennis.
1934: Babe Ruth played in his last baseball game for the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
1877: Saigo Takamori, a hero of the Meiji Restoration, was killed after reluctantly leading a rebellion against the Meiji government.
1869: Plummeting gold prices led to a panic known as Black Friday, when U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, after learning of an attempt by Jay Gould and James Fisk to drive up the gold market, ordered $4 million of government gold to be sold on the market.
1755: John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the United States and principal founder of the U.S. system of constitutional law, including the doctrine of judicial review, was born. |
