50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY
The U.S. Supreme Court in its decision in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education ordered an end to all public school desegregation 15 years after it had ordered an end to segregation with “all deliberate speed” in its Brown v. the Board of Education decision.
Sam Walton’s chain of Wal-Mart discount stores was incorporated.
New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver won the first of three Cy Young Awards
The first ever computer-to-computer links were established on ARPANET, a precursor to the internet.
Beatle George Harrison released “Something” in the United Kingdom
And on Shelter Island . . . (more…)
