Today In History

In 1929: Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radioed that he’d made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.

In 1947: The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

In 1952: President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the conflict.

In 1963: President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.