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On this day, March 4, several presidents were inaugurated. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1167
Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. marshal 2 discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1061
Harry Truman's White House lunch and dinner menu, today 1952: 14 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 10 2393
On Monday, March 3, 1913, there was a women's suffrage parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in DC. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 1222
First issue of Time Magazine, dated March 3, 1923, featured House Speaker Joe Cannon: 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 937
This was a unique performance...giving a newsman a government salary to attack the administration... 4 NNadir Feb 2023 Mar 2023 2 1910
On March 1, 1933, FDR left Hyde Park, headed to Washington DC for his inauguration. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1063
On this day, February 28, 2010, Sidney Crosby scored in overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 1139
On this day, February 25, 1946, the Columbia Race Riot of 1946 broke out. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 3 1334
On February 23, 1945, Joe Rosenthal took this picture: 11 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 43 4104
What American had connections to 3 Presidential assasinations? 18 Kaleva Feb 2023 Feb 2023 8 2269
On this day, February 21, 1925, The New Yorker published its first issue. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 1287
An 1847 Letter to the President of the United States, Relating to His Trafficking in Human Beings. 0 NNadir Feb 2023 Feb 2023 10 1511
On this day, February 18, 1848, Louis Comfort Tiffany was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 4 920
On this day, February 18, 1970, the Chicago Seven were found "not guilty" of conspiracy. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1211
On Valentine's Day 1962, Jacqueline Kennedy welcomed audiences into the newly restored White House. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 8 890
On this day, February 15, 1961, the entire US figure-skating team was killed in a plane crash. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 7 1667
Bob Orben, comedy writer who crafted Gerald Ford's speeches, dies at 95 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 1028
On February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 11 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1753
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith 3 elleng Feb 2023 Feb 2023 22 1671
White House Historical Association 0 elleng Feb 2023 Feb 2023 6 860
As an old slide librarian 1 BittyJenkins Feb 2023 Feb 2023 4 1580
Bust of former chief justice, proslavery Marylander removed from US Capitol 3 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 7 1257
On this day, Sunday, February 7, 1904, the Great Baltimore Fire began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1139
On February 5, 1865, Abraham Lincoln sat for this photograph by Alexander Gardner. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 14 1425
On this day, February 4, 1913, Rosa Parks was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 993
On this day, February 3, 1943, the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 16 1879
Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery, was passed by House today 1865, signed by Lincoln next day 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1098
On this day, January 30, 1919, Fred Korematsu was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1014
On this day, January 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 982

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On this day, Friday, January 27, 1922, the Knickerbocker Storm started. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1218
January 27, 1967: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee die in launchpad capsule fire 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 7 1332
Jean Veloz, celebrated 1940s Lindy Hop dancer, dies at 98 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 6 1052
Arthur Duncan, pioneering Black tap dancer, dies at 97 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 8 1154
Justice Thurgood Marshall died three decades ago today: 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1062
Horror & Heroism, Air Florida Plane Crash, Wash. DC, Jan. 13, 1982- 41 Yrs Ago: Graphic Images, Info 12 appalachiablue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 7 3128
On this day, January 23, 1870, the Marias massacre occurred. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 27 2057
Do you know about Dorothy Parker's connection to Martin Luther King, Jr? 7 elleng Jan 2023 Jan 2023 18 1807
They Posed As Master & Slave, The Saga of Ellen and Wm. Craft: Book Review, LAT 2 appalachiablue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 12 1866
On this day, January 17, 1961, outgoing Pres. Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 9 1284
On January 17, 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was taken into Soviet custody. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 1105
On this day, January 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1081
"A Republic, if you can keep it." On this date, January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 6 1251
On January 16, 1786, the Virginia General Assembly passed the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 2 1245
On this day, January 15, 1953, a Pennsylvania RR passenger train crashed into DC's Union Station. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1461
On this day, January 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, was found dead in Los Angeles. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 4 1333
On January 13, 1952, the passenger train "City of San Francisco" got trapped on the Donner Pass. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 14 1632
On this day, January 13, 1908, the Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killed 171 people. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 4 1100
Alabama Black Belt designated National Heritage Area, unlocking up to $1M each year to preserve hist 0 Eugene Jan 2023 Jan 2023 1 1142
On this day, January 11, 1755 or 1757, Alexander Hamilton was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 0 972
On January 8, 1942, Roosevelt and Churchill paid a visit to George Washington's grave. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 9 1356
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 GenXer47 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 7 1295
January 3, 1944: First usage of a helicopter for the US military 1 steve2470 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1589
On December 26, 2006, Gerald Ford died. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2022 Dec 2022 2 1273
On December 30, 1903, 602 people were killed in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre fire. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 1469
On December 29, 1975, a bomb exploded at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2022 Dec 2022 1 1135
Art at Capitol honors 140 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2022 Dec 2022 1 1017
On this day, December 29, 1890, the U.S. Army massacred at least 146 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 1413
Sincere ignorant, admittedly, question about black and white film and still photos 1939 to 1945 7 steve2470 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 5 1966
Ninety years ago today, December 27, 1932, Radio City Music Hall opened. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2022 Dec 2022 2 1209

American History Continued...

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The Founding of the United States 1 elleng Dec 2022 Dec 2022 6 1107
George Washington had a SCOTUS nomination rejected in 1795 0 steve2470 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 0 1428
JFK's motorcade route was published in advance - @BeschlossDC 5 BootinUp Nov 2022 Dec 2022 11 2185
The Real History of the Americas before Columbus 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2022 Oct 2022 7 1660
How four British migrations defined America 1 elleng Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 1079
I surprised myself and read this wiki 2 Tetrachloride Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 1621
In President Harry's Truman's remarks in Syracuse, New York on October 10, 1952, he said this: 8 elleng Sep 2022 Oct 2022 19 2698
On This Day in History December 14, 1799: George Washington dies at Mount Vernon. 1 elleng Dec 2021 Sep 2022 8 2064
Did it take lots of physical strength to fly WWII war planes? 7 raccoon Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 1884
just for the record: September 11, 1996 - UP control of SP and its subsidiaries was cleared 0 elleng Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 1559
On this day September 4 in 1823, Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams about dictators 1 elleng Sep 2022 Sep 2022 37 2607
Learn Our History Today: On September 1, 1864, during the Civil War, 3 elleng Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 1736
Wow! Did Joe hit out of the park, or what? 7 vlyons Sep 2022 Sep 2022 16 1521
Just watched some of FDR's state of the union in 1941 where he laid out the 4 freedoms 4 captain queeg Jul 2022 Aug 2022 9 2119
Robert Hall Clothes - Life in America 6 bucolic_frolic Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 1589
The last known photo of Ulysses S. Grant. 19 Bleacher Creature Feb 2022 Aug 2022 33 4928
Mary Katharine Goddard, the Woman who Signed the Declaration of Independence (Smithsonian) 4 eppur_se_muova Sep 2020 Aug 2022 12 3657
The Pioneers by David McCullough 2 Marthe48 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 4 1147
The Founding of the United States 4 elleng Jul 2022 Jul 2022 7 1504
Clifford L. Alexander Jr., whose long career as a leading adviser to Democratic presidents 0 elleng Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 1709
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