With the 101st Airborne Division on guard, nine African-American students, dubbed the "Little Rock Nine," formally integrate Little Rock Central High School after a three-week standoff between the federal government and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus.
American writer William Faulkner is born in New Albany, Mississippi. Considered one of the greatest American novelists, Faulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Congress proposed twelve amendments to the Constitution, revisiting the issue after the Constitutional Convention. Ten of the proposed amendments would be ratified as the Bill of Rights, with the eleventh later ratified as the Twenty-Seventh Amendment.
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