Also on this day: Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, is shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he goes ahead with a scheduled speech.
Ethel Merman makes her Broadway debut in the musical comedy "Girl Crazy" with songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Nazi Germany announces it is withdrawing from the League of Nations.U.S.
Air Force Capt. Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager becomes the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flies the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.The idea of a Peace Corps is suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F.
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