December 1st, 2008

Today in History

2001:
Trans World Airlines flies its last flight, after being bought by American Airlines

1987:
NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom.

1969:
Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

1955:
American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws.

1824:
U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).