TODAY IN HISTORY!

[Sky King]

My favorite American John Glenn who learned to fly in the same make, model & year as I did but was my favorite long before. Glad he got to go into space when old.

1962​

​ ​ John Glenn becomes first American to orbit Earth​

​ ​ From Cape Canaveral, Florida, John Herschel Glenn Jr. is successfully launched into space aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft on the first orbital flight by an American astronaut. Glenn, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, was among the seven men chosen by the National Aeronautics​

​ ​ 1792​

​ ​ Postal Service Act regulates United States Post Office Department​

​ ​ 1985​

​ ​ Ireland allows sale of contraceptives​

​ ​ 1942​

​ ​ Pilot Edward O’Hare becomes first American WWII flying ace, his dad was Capones lawyer & Chicago airport was named after Ed O"Hare​

 

[Sky King]

1965​

Malcolm X assassinated​

February 21, 1965: In New York City, Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. He was 39. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925,​

1848​

Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto​

1948​

NASCAR founded​