Keep Hope Alive

1888 National Geographic magazine is published for the first time

1945 World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis is discharged from the US Army after receiving the Legion of Merit

1947 First helicopter airmail and express service in Los Angeles, California

1948 California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages

1958 US space agency NASA begins operations

1962 James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi, becoming its first Black student, guarded by hundreds of federal troops after the Ole Miss riot

1964 Free Speech Movement is launched at University of California, Berkeley

1970 Landmark feminist book “The Female Eunuch” by Germaine Greer is published

1974 Watergate cover-up trial opens in Washington, D.C.

1975 Muhammad Ali stops Joe Frazier in 14 rounds in Quezon City, Philippines, to retain his WBC/WBA heavyweight title in a match billed as the “Thrilla in Manila”

1986 Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia is dedicated

1989 US Army General Colin Powell at 52 becomes the youngest and first Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest military position

2024 Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday at home in Plains, Georgia, becoming the first former US president to reach the milestone