1856 Lyman Frank Baum born. Author and poet: Wizzard of Oz. as we begin our own trip along the yellow brick road.

1862 The Union ironclad Monitor and the gunboat Galena fire on Confederate troops at the Battle of Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia.

1886 Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Mass., where she had lived in seclusion for the previous 24 years.

1930 Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess.

1963 The last Project Mercury space flight, carrying Gordon Cooper, is launched.

1972 George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland.

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