This Day in History...
1862: The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.
1911: The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1918: The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia.
1930: On a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wash., Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
1940: Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.
1972: Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.
1988: The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
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