TODAY IN HISTORY

1864

President Abraham Lincoln won reelection when he defeated Democratic challenger George B. Mcclellan.

1923

Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich — the so-called “Beer-hall Putsch.”

1950

During the Korean War, the first jet-plane battle took place when U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MIG-15.

1966

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a measure allowing the merger of the American Football League and the National Football League.