TODAY IN HISTORY

WEDNESDAY JUN 23, 2021

1972

President Richard Nixon signed Title IX barring discrimination on the basis of sex for “any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”

1888

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively making him the first Black candidate to have his name placed in nomination for U.S. president.

1904

President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for a second term of office at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

1931

Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on a round-theworld flight that lasted eight days and 15 hours.

1947

The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Tafthartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.

1956

Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.

1969

Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren.

1985

All 329 people aboard an Air India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland because of a bomb authorities believe was planted by Sikh separatists.

1993

In a case that drew widespread attention, Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he’d allegedly raped her.

1995

Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, died in La Jolla, California, at age 80.

2009

“Tonight Show” sidekick Ed Mcmahon died in Los Angeles at 86.