TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Sept. 22, 2014

The United States and five Arab nations launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, sending waves of planes and Tomahawk cruise missiles against an array of targets.

ON THIS DATE 1949

The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.

1961

The Interstate Commerce Commission issued rules prohibiting racial discrimination on interstate buses.

2017

Sen. John McCain declared his opposition to the GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal and replace “Obamacare,” the second time in three months McCain had emerged as the destroyer of his party’s signature promise to voters.