Also on this day: During the American Revolution, the Continental Army captures Montreal. Benjamin Franklin writes in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”A fire erupts inside a coal mine in Cherry, Ill., killing 259 men and boys.President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signs a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.The Supreme Court strikes down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
Speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro Agnew accuses network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urges viewers to lodge complaints.
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