On this day in history, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment was revealed in 1972, where poor Black male patients were left untreated to study the disease. Other significant events include Ulysses S. Grant being named General of the Army of the United States in 1866, Benito Mussolini being dismissed as premier of Italy in 1943, and the first underwater atomic bomb test in 1946.
In 1960, a Woolworth’s store in North Carolina dropped its segregation policy after months of sit-in protests. The first “test tube baby,” Louise Joy Brown, was born in England in 1978. The Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris in 2000, Wikileaks leaked U.S. military records in 2010, and Mars was found to have a huge lake of salty water in 2018.
In 2019, President Donald Trump solicited Ukraine’s president for damaging information about Joe Biden, and in 2022, Pope Francis issued an apology for the Catholic Church’s role in Indigenous residential schools in Canada.
Today’s birthdays include Elizabeth Francis, the oldest living American at 114, and celebrities like actor Matt LeBlanc, musician Thurston Moore, and model-actor Iman. This day in history is filled with significant events that have left a lasting impact on society, from medical controversies to political scandals, and scientific discoveries.
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