The Tuskegee Airmen are activated, Elvis buys Graceland, Bob Dylan releases his debut album, Texas Western makes college basketball history, and the invasion of Iraq begins, all on this day.
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1950: American author Edgar Rice Burroughs, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Encino, Calif.