This Day in History (1956) Trachoma Research

From the June 20, 1956, edition of the Sun and Flare

Miss Dorothy McComb, assistant micro-bacteriologist at Harvard School of Public Health, works on normal tissue cultures "under the hood" by means of a pipet. McComb will be in the Field for three months as assistant to Dr. Edward S. Murray of Harvard, who is assisting Medical Department personnel working on the Trachoma Research Project.

Also on this date

2003 — The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida

1991 — The German Bundestag votes to move the seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin

1990 — Asteroid Eureka is discovered

1982 — The Falklands War come to an end as the Argentine Corbet Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos

1975 — The film "Jaws" is released, eventually becoming the highest-grossing film and beginning the trend of summer blockbusters

1972 — An 18-minute gap appears in the tape recording of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of GOP operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex

1963 — The U.S. and Soviet Union sign an agreement to establish the "red phone" link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow, in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis

1944 — The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 kilometers, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space

1928 — Actor Martin Landau is born in Brooklyn, New York

1895 — The Kiel Canal, which rosses the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busies artificial waterway in the world, is opened

1877 — Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone in Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada

1840 — Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph