When did the first domestic jet airliner passenger service in the U.S. open?
National Airlines began the first domestic jet airliner passenger service in the U.S. on December 10, 1958, between New York and Miami.
President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat on the Supreme Court vacated by Thomas C. Clark, who resigned when his son, Ramsey Clark, was appointed as U.S. Attorney General. Marshall (190892), a noted civil rights lawyer, became the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
As of 1990, there were about 9,000 cable television companies in the U.S.
The town brought to life in the 19th-century cowboy song “The Streets of Laredo” is located in Texas.
Founded in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a nonpartisan organization devoted to protecting constitutional rights, has nearly 300,000 members. George Bush used the term “card-carrying member of the ACLU” to darken the name of his opponent Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential campaign.
Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 employed the slogan, “In your heart you know he’s right”. Some Democratic opponents responded, “In your guts you know he’s nuts.” Public fear that Goldwater was an extremist helped Lyndon Johnson defeat him that year.
Thirteen students were shot by Ohio National Guard troops under the command of General Robert H. Canterbury during the antiwar demonstration at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. Nine were wounded and four were killed: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and Bill Schroeder. Of those four, only Krause and Miller had been demonstrating….