TODAY INHISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 2000

In a 5- 4decision, the U. S. Supreme Court, in Illinois v. Wardlow, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.

1773

The first public museum in America was organized in Charleston, South Carolina.

1828

The United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U. S. and Spain.

1910

At a White House dinner hosted by President William Howard Taft, Baroness Rosen, wife of the Russian ambassador, caused a stir by requesting and smoking a cigarette — it was, apparently, the first time a woman had smoked openly during a public function in the executive mansion.

1915

The U. S. House of Representatives rejected, 204174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.

1948

The U. S. Supreme Court, in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, unanimously ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.

1959 1969

The New York Jets of the American Football League upset the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16- 7in Super Bowl III, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami.

1971

The groundbreaking situation comedy “All in the Family” premiered on CBS television.

1976

Mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie died in Wallingford, England, at age 85.

1995

Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, was arrested in Minneapolis on charges she’d tried to hire a hitman to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.