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by On-This-Day.com 1913 - Ralph Edwards, the host of "This is Your Life" and "Truth or Consequences" was born. Ronald Reagan was the only person to ever substitute for him. 1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. 1989 - U.S. President George Bush exercised his first Presidential veto on a bill dealing with minimum wage. 2002 - The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the U.S. and Soviet Union expired. U.S. President George W. Bush had invoked a provision six months before that would allow either side to withdraw upon such notice. The treaty was over 30 years old. 2002 - The National Archives briefly displayed artifacts from the Watergate burglary that led to U.S. President Nixon's resignation. |