Drum artist Jimmy Carl Black

Events in 1938 and 1-2

Events in US in the birth year of Jimmy Carl Black

• Orson Welles broadcasts his adaptation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds, creating a nationwide panic as listeners believe that aliens have landed in New Jersey (Oct. 30).
• Fair Labor Standards Act establishes minimum wage.
• Unexpected hurricane wreaks havoc on Long Island, N.Y. and in New England. See U.S. Hurricanes.

Birthday Jimmy Carl Black (1-2) in history

• Day 1-2 year 1790: The United States Supreme Court was convened for the first time in New York City.
• Day 1-2 year 1862: Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
• Day 1-2 year 1884: The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.
• Day 1-2 year 1946: A press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Day 1-2 year 1960: Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.
• Day 1-2 year 1968: During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.
• Day 1-2 year 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.
• Day 1-2 year 2003: The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.
• Day 1-2 year 2004: Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.
• Day 1-2 year 2009: Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.