Let’s Not Lose Our Hair Over Today's Vocab Test

On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his troops were killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory. On this day in 1950, the U.S. World Cup team beat England. On this day in 1951, CBS broadcast the first commercial TV program in color, but nobody had a color TV, so nobody saw it. And on this day in 2009, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, died.

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