Sculpting begins on the face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota. It would take another 12 years for the granite images of four of America’s most revered preside

the Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. The spacecraft, is named Sputnik after the Russian word for “sa

The original charter was issued by National on this date in 1919. Grandview was the 57th Post chartered in Washington. The Post's namesake was a Grandview man killed in in France in WWI.

The last U.S. carrier manufactured before America’s entry into World War II, the Hornet, is damaged so extensively by Japanese war planes in the Battle of Santa Cruz that it must be abandoned.