1957, in Little Rock, Arkansas, the first major file over Racial Integration of America’s schools. Arkansas governor Orval Faubus orders a state’s National Guard to block 9 black students from entering the all-white Central High School. Weeks later, [-----1-----] under an order from President Dwight Eisenhower.

Also that same year, “This is the Edsel. Unlike any other car you’ve ever seen. This is the Edsel.” Ford’s new model, the Edsel [-----2-----] in auto show rooms across the United States. It’s a massive flock with the car shopping public becoming a lasting symbol of cooperate failure.

1781, in present-day California Spanish settlers found Los Angeles, now the second largest city in the United Sates.
1888, George Eastman [-----3-----], and registers his trademark Kodak.

1995, in New York, attorney William Counselor who spoke up for the politically unpopular dies of cancer at age 76. During his career Counselor represented clients from anti-Vietnam war radicals to suspects in the first World Trade Center bombing.

1972, American swimmer Mark Spitz [-----4-----] during a single Olympics at the summer games in Munich, in what’s then West Germany.
And 1981, singer and actress Beyonce Knowles is born in Houston.