LOOKING BACK

1941: groundbreaking took place for the Pentagon. In a speech that drew accusations of anti-Semitism, Charles A. Lindbergh told an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration” were pushing the United States toward war.

1954: the Miss America pageant made its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Meriwether, was crowned the winner.