On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate. (Go to article.)
1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America.
1862 Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories.
1903 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig was [...]

1983: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman to travel into space.
Ride, who hoped to become a professional tennis player before deciding she wasn’t good enough, became a physicist instead and joined NASA in 1978 as part of the first astronaut class to accept women.
After the usual training, Ride joined ground control for the second [...]