On this day in...

On this day in...
1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station.
1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Births
1755 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
1938 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor
1974 – Nelly, American rapper

I was surprised to see that there was a UFO incident in Levelland. I hadn't heard anything about it. I should probably ask my brother. He's one of those who believe in alien abductions. I'll have to do some further investigating.