Also on this day: Rebecca L. Felton, a Georgia Democrat, is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate; her term, the result of an interim appointment, would end the following day when Walter F.
George, the winner of a special election, takes office. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Air Quality Act.The Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F.
Haynsworth, 55-45, the first such rejection since 1930. A mob attacks the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans. ) A three-day tornado outbreak that would strike 13 states and kill 26 people begins in the Houston area before spreading to the Midwest and eastern U.S.
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