1948: CBS Evening News premiered. Walter Cronkite took over as anchor in 1962 and became the nation's most trusted news anchor for many years. His coverage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 will always be remembered as trying to control his emotions, he took off his glasses to announce that the president had died.

1915: Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae, a doctor serving on the front lines in Belgium during World War I, composed a poem - In Flanders Fields. McCrae's inspiration was the combat death of a close friend and former student and poppies growing between rows of graves.

1913: Library of Congress: Playwright William M. Inge was born in Independence, Kansas. Inge wrote several hit plays including Come Back, Little Sheba, Bus Stop, and Picnic, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. His first play, Farther Off From Heaven (1947), was revised ten years later for Broadway as The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Many of his plays were made into films and, in 1961, Inge won an Academy Award for his original screenplay Splendor in the Grass.