Television

On July 2, 1979, the USPS issued the $1 Rush stamp, which would lead to one of the most fascinating stamp controversies of the late 20th century.

As North and South grew closer to war in early 1861, the Federal government continued postal service in the South for a limited time. Then, on June 1, 1861, the Confederate States of America took control of their own postal operations.

Actor Henry Jaynes Fonda was born on May 16, 1905, in Grand Island, Nebraska.

On April 17, 1937, Daffy Duck made his first appearance in Porky’s Duck Hunt.

Actress Ruth “Bette” Elizabeth Davis was born on April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Conductor Arturo Toscanini was born on March 25, 1867, in Parma, Italy.

On January 14, 1973, Elvis performed the first live worldwide broadcast concert – Aloha from Hawaii.

Richard Milhous Nixon was born into a poor Quaker family in Yorba Linda, California, on January 9, 1913.

On December 9, 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired on television.