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On May 1, 1971, Amtrak began operation. 6 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 4 1183
On the night of April 30, 2011, Donald Trump attended the WH Correspondents' Association dinner. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 3 741
On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 1 455
On this day, May 5, 1961, "Freedom 7" launched from Cape Canaveral, carrying Alan Shepard, the first American in space. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 3 400
America recalls the hellish agony of May 5, 2009: the day Barack Hussein Obama ordered Dijon mustard on his hamburger. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 9 911
On April 29, 1970, U.S. troops entered Cambodia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 4 May 4 0 493
On May 3, 1963, "Bull" Connor turned fire hoses and police dogs on schoolchildren walking in Birmingham. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 4 May 4 4 762
On this day, May 2, 1972, J. Edgar Hoover died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2 May 3 2 613
Donald W. Riegle, Representative Who Switched Parties, Dies at 88 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 28 Apr 28 7 699
Lionel Rosenblatt Dies at 82; Led Daring Rescue of Vietnamese Refugees 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 9 750
On this day, April 25, 1946, 45 people were killed and some 125 were injured in a train wreck in Naperville, Illinois. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 3 926
On this day, April 25, 1945, United States and Soviet troops met in Torgau and Strehla along the Elbe River. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 4 568
Inside Frank Lloyd Wright's Hidden Woodland Utopia Unique Spaces Architectural Digest 0 Uncle Joe Apr 25 Apr 25 6 775
On April 23, 1951, Barbara Johns launched a student strike for equal education in Virginia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 3 497
On this day, April 24, 1980, eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue hostages. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 2 542
On April 23, 1945, the US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenburg concentration camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 5 634
On April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 3 728
On April 16, 1947, the SS Grandcamp, filled with ammonium nitrate, blew up in Texas City. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 2 657
Considering History: Jackie Robinson, Japanese Americans, and the Best of American Sports and Community 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 1 450
On this day, April 23, 1987, 28 construction workers died in the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 0 523
On this day, April 23, 1940, 209 people were killed in the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 2 510
On this day, April 22, 1994, Richard Nixon died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 3 751
On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite narrated a special report. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 7 695
On April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang was introduced to the public at the New York World's Fair. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 10 964
On this day, April 21, 1910, Mark Twain died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 6 701
On April 17, 1965, the first pickets in DC for gay rights took place in front of the White House. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 6 583
On this day, April 19, 1993, 76 people died when the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, was set fire. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 19 Apr 20 4 709
On this day, April 20, 1914, approximately 21 people were killed in the Ludlow Massacre. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 20 Apr 20 2 1616
On this day, April 19, 1995, 168 people were killed in the truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 19 Apr 19 7 870
Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 19 6 596

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On this day, April 19, 1927, Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 19 Apr 19 5 810
Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 18 5 722
Ishmael Jaffree, Who Won Case Rejecting School Prayer, Is Dead at 80 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 15 Apr 15 9 739
On this day, April 13, 1873, the Ku Klux Klan carried out the Colfax Massacre in response to an 1872 Republican victory. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 13 Apr 13 5 712
On this day, April 12, 1955, it was announced that the polio vaccine Jonas Salk developed was safe. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 12 Apr 12 6 805
On this day, April 11, 1945, American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 11 Apr 11 6 653
On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 2 888
On April 5, 2010, twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion in the Upper Big Branch coal mine. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 2 623
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 3 621
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 3 631
Martin Gugino, Activist Shoved by Buffalo Police at 2020 Protest, Dies 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 736
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 606
On this day, April 9, 2003, a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was toppled. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 2 615
On this day, April 9, 1939, Easter Sunday, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 4 756
Has any American President ever received a Tito letter? 5 Wolf Frankula Apr 2026 Apr 9 3 1102
'Duck and Cover,' Nuclear Attack Civil Defence Film 1952; Lewis Black Comedy Gold 5 appalachiablue Apr 2026 Apr 2026 2 982
PBS: How Thoreau Told the Stories of the Black Community near Walden 1 marmar Apr 2026 Apr 2026 8 705
PBS: FDR's Path to the White House (1884-1933) 2 marmar Apr 2026 Apr 2026 4 778
For baseball fans: 0 discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2026 Apr 2026 7 780
Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution FULL EPISODE 1 (from PBS's youtube) 2 eShirl Apr 2026 Apr 2026 2 890
On this day, April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2026 Apr 2026 5 510
April 6, 1712, In Labor History: One Of The First Slave Revolts, In New York City 0 erronis Apr 2026 Apr 2026 4 609
On this day, April 5, 1976, a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts, took this picture. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2026 Apr 2026 45 2287
On this day, June 24, 1994, a B-52 crashed at Fairchild Air Force Base during practice for an airshow. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Apr 2026 3 1103
On this day, March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up and removed. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 854
On this day, March 30, 1954, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson suffered a massive heart attack 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 739
PBS: The Final Battle for the 19th Amendment (1916-1920) 0 marmar Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 625
On March 29, 1961, police used clubs and German Shepherds to attack Black citizens outside a courthouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 599
On March 29, 1945, Roosevelt left DC for the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, for some rest. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 9 656
On this day, March 28, 1979, there was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 at Three Mile Island. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 802

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PBS: The Black Congresswoman They DON'T Teach You About 21 marmar Mar 2026 Mar 2026 49 2923
On March 28, 1898, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 718
On this day, Friday, March 28, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 561
On this day, March 28, 1979, the Supreme Court handed down a 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 683
On this day, March 27, 1960, the last scheduled steam-powered passenger train in the United States ran. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 1 711
On this day, Friday, March 27, 2020, this was the front page of The New York Times: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 844
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At 4:40 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire flared up at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. 9 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 13 2025
On this day, March 25, 1911, or maybe one of five other days, Jack Ruby was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 624
On this day, March 25, 1947, there was an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 coal mine. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 593
On this day, March 25, 1914, Norman Borlaug was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 599
On this day, March 23, 1977, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, opened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 617
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On this day, March 22, 1984, teachers at a preschool were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 749
On this day, March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 561
On this day, March 22, 1945, Eleanor and Franklin went to Union Station to meet the visiting Governor General of Canada. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 3 541
On this day, March 21, 1937, the Ponce Massacre occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 2 742
On this day, Friday, March 21, 1952, Alan Freed presented the Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 740
On March 19, 1945, a Japanese dive bomber hit the USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 4 775
On March 14, 1940, 34 people were killed when a train hit a truck carrying more than 40 agricultural workers. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2026 Mar 2026 1 679
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