October 14th, 2008

Today in History

1967:
Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.

1960:
U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps.

1953:
The Qibya massacre was carried out by Israeli troops in a West Bank village.

1947:
Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.

1916:
Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee Universities refuse to play against a black person.