The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
Sept. 15, 2001
President George W. Bush ordered U.S. troops to get ready for war and braced Americans for a long, difficult assault against terrorists to avenge the Sept. 11 attack.
ON THIS DATE 1959
Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet head of state to visit the United States as he arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington.
1963
Four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
1972
A federal grand jury in Washington indicted seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in.
1985
Nike began selling its “Air Jordan 1” sneaker.