On this day in 1935, inventor Edwin Armstrong gave the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States.
On this day in 1963, John F. Kennedy addressed Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionize American society.
And on this day in 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children were isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.