1806 - Explorers Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific coast and began their return journey to the east.
1862 - Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (pictured) was defeated when his attack on Union forces failed at the Battle of Kernstown, Virginia.
1965 - America's first two-person space flight took off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3.
1983 - U.S. President Reagan first proposed development of technology to intercept enemy missiles. The proposal became known as the Strategic Defense Initiative and "Star Wars."
◼ National Federation of Republican Women: From the NFRW Americanism Committee
