this day in history On June 21 1913 Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to jump from an airplane. 1938 In Washington, U.S. President Roosevelt signed the $3.75 billion Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. 1939 Lou Gehrig quits baseball due to illness. 1940 Richard M. Nixon and Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Ryan were married. 1942 Ben Hogan recorded the (then) lowest score in a major golf tournament. Hogan shot a 271 for 72 holes in Chicago, IL. 1945 Pan Am announced an 88-hour round-the-world flight at a cost of $700. 1954 The Cancer Society announced that smokers over 50 years old had a 75% higher death rate than non-smokers. 1954 NBC radio presented the final broadcast of "The Railroad Hour." 1958 In Arkansas, a federal judge let Little Rock delay school integration. 1963 In St. Louis, Bob Hayes set a record when he ran the 100-yard dash in 0:09.1. 1964 Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, MS. Their bodies were found on August 4, 1964 in an earthen dam. Eight Ku Klux Klan members later went to federal prison on conspiracy charges. 1973 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene, according to local standards. 1982 A jury in Washington, DC, found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of U.S. President Reagan and three other men. 1989 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment. 1993 In Madrid, five senior military officers and two civilians were killed by a car bomb. 24 people were injured. The Basque terror group claimed responsibility. 2001 Former Haitian Army colonel Carl Dorelien was taken into custody in Port St. Lucie. Dorelien had been in exile since 1994 when he was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 1994 massacre. 2003 The fifth Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," was published by J.K. Rowling. Amazon shipped out more than one million copies on this day making the day the largest distribution day of a single item in e-commerce history. The book set sales records around the world with an estimated 5 million copies were sold on the first day.
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