In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the National Defense Act, expanding the size and scope of the U.S. National Guard.
In 1965, Edward H. White II, an astronaut on Gemini IV, became the first American to “walk” in space.
In 1979, the Ixtoc I oil well in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, spilling more than 600,000 tons of oil over an area of 1,100 square miles.
In 2017, eight people were kill…