Today in History

1935 - Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on sale -- in Richmond, VA. I’ll have a cold Krueger Light, please.
1941 - Happy Birthday to Neil Diamond, who started writing and singing songs while he was a young pre-med student.
1964 - CBS acquired the rights to televise the National Football League's 1964-1965 regular season. The move cost CBS $14.1 million a year. The NFL stayed on CBS for 30 years.
1985 - Penny Harrington became the first woman police chief of a major city. She assumed the duties as head of the Portland, Oregon force of 940 officers and staff.
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, first African American member of the United States Supreme Court, dies in Bethesda, Maryland at the age of 84.