1905

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, upheld, on 7-2 vote, the compulsory vaccination laws intended to protect the public’s health.

1933

Congress proposed the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to repeal Prohibition.

Astronaut John Glenn became the first Ameican to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Project Mercury’s Friendship 7 spacecraft, which circled the globe three times in a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds before splashing down safely in the Atlantic Ocean 800 miles southeast of Bermuda.