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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1860: William Jennings Bryan, the U.S. secretary of state under President Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1915 and a three-time Democratic presidential nominee, is born in Salem, Ill.