“Woman Suffrage is a long story of hard work and heartache, at least one thousand legal enactments were necessary and everyone was a struggle against ignorant opposition.”

2003Investigators pinpoint what cause Space Shuttle Columbia to disintegrate on re-entry, damage from falling debris during a launch. Scott Hubbard is a member of the Shuttle Accident Investigation Board, “We concluded that the falling foam impacting the leading edge of the wing was the cause of the breach that ultimately led to the destruction of the orbiter”.

But investigators also conclude NASA’s overconfident management and inattention to safety contributed to the loss of Columbia and its seven-person crew.

And 1974Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean dies at his home in Hawaii, he was 72.

Today in History, August 26th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.