TODAY IN HISTORY
On May 18, 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, endorsed “separate but equal” racial segregation.
In 1910, Halley’s Comet passed by earth.
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
In 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.
the New York Native, a gay newspaper, carried a story concerning “an exotic new disease;”
In 1981,
it was the first published report about what came to be known as AIDS.
In 1998, the U.S. government filed an antitrust case against Microsoft.
In 2015, President Barack Obama ended transfers of some combat-style gear to local law enforcement in an attempt to ease tensions between police and minority communities.