planted by local farmer Andrew Kehoe, who then set off a dynamite-laden
automobile; the attacks killed 38 children and six adults, including
Kehoe, who had earlier killed his wife
* 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The federally owned corporation was
created to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation,
fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee
Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression. The TVA
was envisioned not only as an electricity provider, but also as a
regional economic development agency that would use federal experts and
electricity to rapidly modernize the region's economy and society
* 1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound
barrier as she piloted a North American F-86 Canadair over Rogers Dry
Lake, Calif
* 1967, Tennessee Gov. Buford Ellington signed a measure repealing the
law against teaching evolution that was used to prosecute John T. Scopes
in 1925
* 1974, the completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest
construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8,
1991
* 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded,
leaving 57 people dead or missing
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