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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2008: English author and inventor Arthur C. Clarke, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 1968's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and 1972's "Rendezvous with Rama," dies of respiratory complications and heart failure at the age of 90 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.