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CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite talking about the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1168
On this day, April 22, 1994, Richard Nixon died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 1173
On April 20, 1914, the Ludlow Massacre occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1451
On this day, April 21, 1910, Mark Twain died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1095
It was the shot heard round the world -- and these women were there to hear it. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 1541
On this day, April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 976
On this day, April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 24 in the Columbine HS massacre. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 1022
Words That Hide the Truth - George Carlin 3 Uncle Joe Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1567
On this day 1863, Robert E Lee shouted "Never fight uphill, me b'hoys!" ... So beautiful 8 Bucky Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 2261
On the night of April 14, 1865, this was what Abraham Lincoln took with him to Ford's Theatre. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 12 1784
On this day, April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1138
On this day, April 19, 1993, the Waco siege ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian compound. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 1215
On this day, April 19, 1989, a gun turret on board the battleship Iowa exploded, killing 47 sailors. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1253
Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1447
Why Did Columbia University Students Protest in 1968? History 0 Uncle Joe Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1147
On this day, April 18, 1923, Babe Ruth was at the first game in New York City's new Yankee Stadium. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1067
On this day, April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang was introduced to the public at the New York World's Fair. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1428
On this day, April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1232
On this day, April 17, 2013, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, killed 15 people. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1022
On this day, April 16, 1947, the SS Grandcamp, filled with ammonium nitrate, blew up in Texas City. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1229
On this day, April 16, 2007, the Virginia Tech school shootings occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1160
On this day, April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1044
Financial Frauds- Enron $74 Billion Fraud Creative Accounting Scandal Shocked the Financial World - Joe Blogs 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1174
On this day, April 15, 2013, the Boston Marathon bombing occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 913
On this day, April 15, 1923, ten Japanese-American children were killed in a racially motivated arson attack on a school 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1100
San Francisco 1906 (New Version) in Color [VFX,60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added 5 Uncle Joe Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1905
April 14, 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral procession on the streets of Washington, D.C. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 2517
On this day, April 14, 1935, the Black Sunday dust storm blew through Oklahoma and Texas. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1694
On this day, April 13, 2018, Art Bell died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1467
Financial Fraud - Charles Ponzi, Full Story of the Original Ponzi Scheme That Fooled Boston in 1920 - Joe Blogs 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1201

American History Continued...

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Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 43 3104
On this day, April 13, 1953, Project MKUltra was started. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1451
On this date, April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 994
On this day, April 12, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1339
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 41 2726
Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2024 12 2710
On this day, April 12, 1955, it was announced that the polio vaccine Jonas Salk developed was safe. (2024 thread) 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1214
On this day, April 11, 1945, American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1535
Alexandria lecture explores harrowing story of woman who killed her children rather than have them sold into slavery 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1337
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1382
On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1202
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 1492
In the small village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant 0 elleng Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 983
On this day 1865 CSA surrenders. Civil War ends.? 1 spike jones Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1391
On this day, April 9, 2003, a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was toppled. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1336
On this day, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1206
On this day, April 4, 1859, Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New York City' 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 1123
An Extremely Interesting View of Four Presidents and the Constitution. 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1439
On April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 1023
On April 6, 1958, Capital Airlines Viscount N7437 crashed on final approach to Freeland MI 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1119
On this day, April 5, 1949, a fire started in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois. 77 people died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1026
On this day, April 5, 2010, twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion in the Upper Big Branch coal mine. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1093
On the night of April 5 - 6, 1936, the 1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1070
I'm reading through Eleanor Roosevelt's Correspondence with President Harry Truman. 2 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 13 1391
On this day, April 4, 1936, the Hindenburg arrived in Rio de Janeiro. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1206
Did Native Americans have stories about the die-off when Europeans arrived? 4 raccoon Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1476
On this day, April 3, 1860, the Pony Express began operation. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1090
On this day, April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Memphis and checked in to the Lorraine Motel. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1103
On this day, April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1074
On this day, April 1, 1976, Conrail was formed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1098

American History Continued...

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The Fall of Wake Island... and Donald Trump's tooth brush... 2 DemocraticPatriot Mar 2024 Apr 2024 4 1758
On this day, March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not be running for another term. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1226
On this day, March 30, 1954, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson suffered a massive heart attack 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1452
On this day, March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1281
On this day, March 29, 1945, Roosevelt went to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, for some rest. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 11 1235
On March 29, 1961, police used clubs and German Shepherds to attack Black citizens outside a courthouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1117
Sergeant Stubby, most decorated American "war dog" of World War One 1 steve2470 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1607
On this day, March 28, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1358
On Friday, March 27, 2020, this was the front page of The New York Times: 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 15 1746
On this day, March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island accident happened. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 1172
On this day, March 18, 1966, Studebaker finally shut down. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1542
On this day, March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1628
On this day, March 27, 1960, the last scheduled steam-powered passenger train in the United States ran. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1371
On this day, March 26, 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima ended as the island was officially secured by American forces. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1177
On March 23, 1977, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, opened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1218
On this day, March 24, 1839, the last detachment of Cherokee people arrived in Indian Territory. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 1317
Doris Miller, Hero Pearl Harbor 1941, Fired AA Machine Gun from USS West Virginia, Navy Cross 8 appalachiablue Mar 2024 Mar 2024 18 2346
On this day, March 25, 1947, there was an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 coal mine. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1351
On this day, March 25, 1914, Norman Borlaug was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 1087
On this day, March 23, 2005, the Texas City refinery explosion occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 1129
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