Our Sister Service: Powerless: The Wreck of the Robert E. Lee

Composer George Gershwin sailed for Europe on March 9, 1928, to perform his "Rhapsody in Blue" for that continent's classical music devotees for the first time. That same day, boxer George "The Saginaw Kid" Lavigne, the world's second lightweight champion under the Marques of Queensbury rules, heard the ring bell toll for the last time, dying at the age of fifty-nine. And in a landmark decision, a US. Circuit Court judge ruled that Native Americans should not be held accountable to US. naturalization laws and should be allowed to cross the American and Canadian borders at will, as recognized by the Jay Treaty of 1796.