50
Half a century.
Two quarter centuries.
Five decades.
That is all.
Also on This Day
- LEAD STORY
- Transcontinental railroad completed, 1869
- AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- Second Continental Congress assembles as Ticonderoga falls, 1775
- AUTOMOTIVE
- Government gives Chrysler $1.5 billion loan,1980
- CIVIL WAR
- Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson dies, 1863
- COLD WAR
- China releases Tiananmen Square prisoners, 1990
- CRIME
- J. Edgar Hoover begins his legacy with the FBI,1924
- DISASTER
- Death on Mount Everest,1996
- GENERAL INTEREST
- Jefferson Davis captured,1865
- Churchill becomes prime minister, 1940
- Nelson Mandela inaugurated, 1994
- HOLLYWOOD
- Joan Crawford dies, 1977
- LITERARY
- The final volume of Tom Jones is published, 1749
- MUSIC
- “Mother” Maybelle Carter is born, 1909
- OLD WEST
- First transcontinental railroad is completed,1869
- PRESIDENTIAL
- Hayes has first phone installed in White House,1877
- SPORTS
- Bobby Orr leads Bruins to Stanley Cup title, 1970
- VIETNAM WAR
- Operation Apache Snow is launched, 1969
- Intense air war continues over North Vietnam, 1972
- WORLD WAR I
- Treaty of Frankfurt am Main ends Franco-Prussian War, 1871
- WORLD WAR II
- As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain, 1940
