Today In History

Tue., Oct. 14, 1997

In 1912: Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, He went ahead with a scheduled speech.

In 1947: Air Force test pilot Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.

In 1964: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1990: Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.

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