TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Sept. 9, 1956

Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

ON THIS DATE 1948

The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was declared.

1957

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction, a measure primarily concerned with protecting voting rights and which also established a Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

2005

Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.