Today in History
SATURDAY, June 29, 2024
Today is the 181st day of 2024 and the 10th day of summer.
TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Federal-Aid Highway Act, creating the interstate system.
In 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty as it was then applied in the United States was unconstitutional for being “cruel and unusual…