This week in history

TODAY

1868 - W.E.B. DuBois is born.

1940 - Woody Guthrie writes his best known song, "This Land is Your Land."

1945 - U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Division raise the U.S. flag on the crest of Mount Suribachi during WWII.

TOMORROW

1868 - President Andrew Johnson becomes the first president impeached in U.S. history.

1917 - British authorities present a copy of the "Zimmerman Note" to the U.S. ambassador to Britain.

1991 - After six weeks of intensive bombing against Iraq and its armed forces, U.S.-led coalition forces launch a ground invasion of Kuwait and Iraq.

WEDNESDAY

1870 - Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Miss., is sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.

1956 - Sylvia Plath meets Ted Hughes at a party in Cambridge, Mass. The two poets fall in love at first sight and are married four months later.

1964 - Twenty-two-year-old Cassius Clay, later to become Muhammad Ali, dethrones heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout.

THURSDAY

1564 - Christopher Marlowe is baptized in Canterbury, England, two months before the birth of his fellow playwright William Shakespeare.

1957 - The last radio episode of Dragnet airs.

1993 - At 12:18 p.m., a terrorist bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City.

FRIDAY

1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously declares the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for female suffrage, constitutional.

1936 - Shirley Temple receives a new contract from 20th Century Fox that will pay the seven-year-old star $50,000 per film.

1942 - The U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier, the Langley, is sunk by Japanese warplanes.