TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Sept. 25, 1981

Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

ON THIS DATE 1911

Ground was broken for Boston’s Fenway Park.

1957

Nine Black students who’d been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.