Today in History

The shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-114, marking a return to space after the shuttle Columbia crash of 2003.

In an Executive Order, President Harry Truman calls for the end of discrimination and segregation in the U.S. armed forces.

Alan Gordon [Big Al] Anderson, musician, songwriter, member of New Rhythm and Blues Quartet [NRBQ] and The Wildweeds.

Mick [Michael Phillip] Jagger, musician, member of the Rolling Stones.

Bernice Rubens, Welsh novelist and filmmaker.

The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.

Britain’s top war ace, Edward Mannock, is shot down by ground fire on the Western Front.

Erskine Hawkins, trumpeter.

Gracie Allen, actress, wife and foil of George Burns.

George Grosz, German satiric artist.

William Gladstone is replaced by Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister of England.

Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.

George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, Major Barbara).

The French army suppresses the Paris uprising.