On this day: October 29
The Red Cross is formed, the New York Stock Exchange crashes on "Black Tuesday," Cassius Clay fights for the first time, and John Glenn returns to space, all on this day.
1969: The U.S. Supreme Court rules on Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, ordering an immediate end to all school segregation. The ruling changed 1954's Brown v. Board of Education's requirement for school desegregation "with all deliberate speed" to one of "desegregation now." For 15 years since Brown, schools in the South had used the phrase to put off desegregation.
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