On this day in 1950, Mason and President Harry S. Truman announced that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.

On this day in 1971 Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Mason Edgar D. Mitchell, from Artesia Lodge #29 in Artesia, New Mexico, and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on the third successful manned mission to the moon.

On this day in Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died at age 78. Martin Luther King (PHA) was made a mason at sight, by the Grand Master of the Prince Hall Lodge, after his death.

ON this day in mason and Mason and General Nathan Bedford Forrest of Angerona Lodge #168 in Memphis, Tennessee and of the Confederate forces routes Union Forces on a raid into Western Tennessee, an area which was held by union forces.

On this day in 1886, Ty Cobb was born.

Tyrus R. "Ty" Cobb Member of Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born on December 18, 1886 in Narrows, Banks County, Georgia. He played with the Detroit American League team from 1905 until 1926 and with Philadelphia from 1927-1928. He led the American League in batting 12 times and created or equaled more major league records than any other ball player. He retired with 419 major league hits. His all-time high batting average for lifetime is .369. He was one of the first four elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. He is a member of Royston Lodge No. 426 (now No. 52), joining in 1907 at the age of 21. He received his 32 AASR (NJ) in Detroit on Jan. 25, 1912. He was elected honorary life member of City of Straights Lodge No. 452, Detroit, on May 7, 1921. Joined Moslem Shrine Temple, Detroit, in 1912. A Shrine class was named for him in Newark, New Jersey in December 1955. His father, William. H. Cobb, was master of Royston Lodge No. 426 from 1899 to 1903 and organized a fine fellowcraft team that traveled over Georgia