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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1955: Actor Bruce Willis, best known for the "Die Hard" movie franchise and other movies such as "Pulp Fiction," "The Fifth Element," "Armageddon" and "The Sixth Sense," is born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany.