This Day In History

1961: Writer Ernest Hemingway commits suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, at the age of 61.

1937: Pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick J. Noonan disappear without a trace in the South Pacific while attempting to fly around the world.

1964: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits segregation and discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, or national origin.

1881: President James A. Garfield, waiting for a train in Washington, D.C., is shot by Charles Guiteau, a frustrated office-seeker. Garfield dies of his wounds on September 19.