This Day in History: May 30th

This Day in History: The first major ceremony honoring our Veterans and fallen soldiers is held in the United States, first termed Decoration Day and later called Memorial Day, 1868; former President Taft dedicates a shrine to one of our greatest leaders as the Lincoln Memorial opens to the public, 1922; the Mariner 9 spacecraft departs for Mars in search of worlds unknown- and later sends back over 7,000 photographs of the alien planet, showing gigantic volcanoes, a 3,000-mile long canyon and what appear to be dry riverbeds, giving scientists an indication that the environment may once have contained water, possibly supporting some form of life, 1971