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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2003: Mahmoud Abbas accepts the new position of Palestinian prime minister. Abbas would go on to win election in 2005 to replace Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian National Authority.