This Day in History...
On this day in 1950, North Korea unleashed an attack southward across the 38th parallel, after which the UN Security Council (minus the Soviet delegate) passed a resolution calling on UN members to assist South Korea.
United Nations forces fighting to recapture Seoul, South Korea, from communist invaders.
Historic Events:- Virginia became the 10th state in the Union. (1788)
- George Armstrong Custer made his last stand with the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. (1876)
- The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky and Michel Fokine premiered at the Paris Opéra. (1910)
- The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC. (1951)
- Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died. (1997)
Today's Birthday:
Born this day in 1852, Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, whose distinctive style was typified by freedom of form and voluptuous colour and texture, spent much of his career building Barcelona's church of the Holy Family.
Antoni Gaudí's Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family (Sagrada Família), Barcelona, Spain.
Other Notables:- Robert Erskine Childers—writer, Sinn Féin deputy, member of the Irish Republican Army, and Irish nationalist agitator—was born in London. (1870)
- George Abbott: theatrical writer/director, Damn Yankees (1887)
- James Meredith(76): civil rights leader; as the first black to attend the University of Mississippi, James H. Meredith scored one of the earliest important victories against segregation in Mississippi.