135-131: Socially Distant

135: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery

 

134: Four Black students in Greensboro, NC begin a sit in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter

 

133: America’s fourth largest bank Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11, kicking off a month of possible worldwide economic collapse ft Former US Attorney, Senior Partner at Jenner & Block, & Court-Appointed Bankruptcy Examiner in the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Anton Valukas. 

 

132: The first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in the United States. President Trump declares a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 outbreak freeing up $50B in emergency funding as schools and businesses begin closing across the country ft Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center & FOX News Senior Medical Analyst, Dr. Marc Siegel. 

 

131: President Johnson announces his Great Society during his State of the Union

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