The Tuskegee Airmen are activated, Elvis buys Graceland, Bob Dylan releases his debut album, Texas Western makes college basketball history, and the invasion of Iraq begins, all on this day.
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1687: While searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle is murdered by his own men in a mutiny near the site of present Navasota, Texas.