On this day :
1954 USS Nautilus commissioned, 1776 Washington blames militia for problems, 1955 James Dean dies in car accident, 1864 Battle of Poplar Springs Church Peebles Farm, 1949 Berlin Airlift ends, 1994 A Texas college student kills his exgirlfriend, 1999 Radiation released at Japanese plant, 1399 Henry IV proclaimed, 1938 Munich Pact signed, 1955 James Dean dies, 1962 Riots over desegregation of Ole Miss, 2005 Eisner resigns as Disney CEO, 1868 First volume of Little Women is published, 1928 Elie Wiesel Holocaust survivor and bestselling author is born, 1935 Johnny Mathis is born, 1889 Wyoming legislators write the first state constitution to grant women the vote, 1918 President Woodrow Wilson speaks in favor of female suffrage, 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th homer of 1927 season, 1964 First large scale antiwar demonstration staged at Berkeley, 1968 Humphrey announces that he would halt the bombing of North Vietnam, 1918 Turks abandon Damascus as Allies approach, 1938 Hitler appeased at Munich,