1314: Jacques de Molay is burned at the stake
1865: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time
1965: Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov is the first person to “space walk”
1966: Scott introduces $1 paper dresses
1969: American B-52s conduct the first of many secret bombing raids over Cambodia
As a reminder to myself to add, next time around:
“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”
—Barbara Bush on Good Morning America, 18 March 2003