RODNEY HALTOM

On March 7, 1876 – Patent #174,465 was issued to Alexander Graham Bell for his telephone.

1918 – President Wilson authorized the Army’s Distinguished Service Medal.

1942 – Tuskegee flying school graduated its first cadets.

1950 – Just one week after British physicist Klaus Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in passing information on the atomic bomb to the Russians, the Soviet Union issues a terse statement denying any knowledge of Fuchs or his activities.

1951 – Operation RIPPER was launched in the central and eastern sectors as IX and X Corps crossed the Han River east of Seoul. Operation Ripper, also known as the Fourth Battle of Seoul, was a United Nations military operation conceived by the commander US Eighth Army, General Matthew Ridgway.

1952 – The U.S. signed a military aid pact with Cuba.

1966 – In the heaviest air raids since the bombing began in February 1965, U.S. Air Force and Navy planes fly an estimated 200 sorties against North Vietnam.

1974 – The Civil War ironclad ship, Monitor, which sank in 1862, is discovered off the coast of Hatteras, North Carolina.

1979 – Voyager 1 reached Jupiter.

1986 – Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the ocean floor.

1996 – 1st surface photos of Pluto were photographed by Hubble Space Telescope.