Armed Forces Day
Happy Birthday! Sugar Ray Leonard, Bill Paxton, Debra Winger
1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was founded at 70 Wall Street by 24 brokers.
1875 - The first Kentucky Derby was run at Louisville, KY.
1932 - The U.S. Congress changed the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico."
1946 - U.S. President Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
1954 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled for school integration in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling declared that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal.
1973 - The U.S. Senate Watergate Committee began its hearings.
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