1815: Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated at Waterloo 1971: Southwest Airlines begins operations 1979: Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II
Dr. Sally K. Ride waves to wellwishers after the completion of her historic ride in morning on Friday, June 24, 1983 in Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Ride, America’s first woman in space, landed at Edward AFB with her crewmates after their scheduled landing at Cape Canaveral was scrubbed because of rain. Dr. Sally K. Ride waves to wellwishers after the completion of her historic ride in morning on Friday, June 24, 1983 in Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met defeat at Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna. In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Georgia v. McCollum, ruled that criminal defendants could not use race as a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials.
In 2011, Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player for the E Street Band who was one of the key influences in Bruce Springsteen’s life and music, died in Florida at age 69.
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