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On August 12, 1963, 21-year-old University of Chicago student Bernie Sanders was charged with resisting arrest. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 763
On August 5, 1969, the "Lonesome Cowboys" police raid in Atlanta occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 607
On August 12, 1933, the Century of Progress World's Fair celebrated Black people with "National Negro Day." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 734
Live coverage: Protesters swarm Capitol, abruptly halting electoral vote count 0 Uncle Joe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 812
LIVE COVERAGE Mob storms the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th 2021 0 Uncle Joe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 658
Edward R Murrow's final reply to Senator Joseph McCarthy's See It Now appearance April 13, 1954 1 Uncle Joe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 770
Barbara Jordan's 1974 Watergate speech, link below, nt 5 ShazamIam Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1157
Sandra Grimes, Who Helped Unmask a C.I.A. Traitor, Dies at 79 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1033
On August 1, 1966, the Texas Tower Sniper shootings occurred. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 882
On August 2, 1814, the Declaration of Independence was smuggled out of DC to keep it from being burned. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 792
On August 2, 1945, sailors were spotted adrift in the ocean between Guam and the Philippines. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 819
On this day, August 3, 2019, 23 people were killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting in El Paso TX. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 592
Joan Anderson, Unsung Heroine of Hula Hoop History, Dies at 101 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 797
On this day, July 31, 1968, "Peanuts" got a new character, Franklin. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 783
On this day, July 31, 1969, Gary Alan Hinman was found murdered in Topanga Canyon, California. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 918
On Sunday, July 28, 1974, this was the front page of the New York Times: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 868
On this day, July 30, 1965, LBJ signed the Social Security Act of 1965 into law. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 815
On July 29, 1967, a fire broke out on board the USS Forrestal. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 945
On this day, July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa was seen in public for the last time. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 698
On July 29, 1924, Elizabeth Short, the "Black Dahlia," was born. She was murdered in 1947. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 715
On this day, July 30, 1974, Richard Nixon released subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 577
On the night of July 13-14, 1966, Richard Speck killed eight student nurses in their Chicago residence. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 714
On July 15, 1962, Morton Mintz of the Washington Post broke the thalidomide story. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 942
Washington Post, Monday, July 28, 1952: "'Saucer' Outran Jet, Pilot Reveals" 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1029
On this day, July 28, 1973, nearly 600,000 people attended "The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen," in Watkins Glen, New York. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 855
On this day, July 28, 1945, a B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 14. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 864
On this day, July 28, 1967, sheriff's deputies apprehended Charles Manson and 14-year-old runaway Ruth Ann Moorehouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 852
On this day, July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 for Nixon's impeachment. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 636
On this day, July 27, 1969, Gary Alan Hinman was killed. It was the first of the Manson Family slayings. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 879
On this day, July 26, 1863, the Confederate Army got as far north as it ever would. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 876

American History Continued...

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On this day, July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 701
On this day, July 26, 1945, the USS Indianapolis arrived at Tinian with components for the "Little Boy" bomb. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 654
On this day, July 26, 1948, Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 599
July 25 1960 the Woolworth Lunch counter sit ins ended 3 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 895
On this day, July 25, 1944, Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair was killed in action in France. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 761
On July 25, 1972, VP nominee Eagleton acknowledged that he had received electroshock therapy for clinical depression. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 664
On this day, July 25, 1972, the story of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study broke. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 606
On July 23, 1973, Nixon refused to turn over presidential tapes to the Sen. Watergate Cmte. or the special prosecutor. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 623
On this day, July 24, 1911, Hiram Bingham III re-discovered Machu Picchu. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 632
On July 23, 1928, astronomer Vera Rubin was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 548
On July 23, 1962, Telstar relayed the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 1057
On this day, July 24, 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that Nixon could not withhold subpoenaed White House tapes. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 621
On this day, July 24, 1935, the Dust Bowl heat wave reached its peak. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 550
On this day, July 24, 1897, Amelia Earhart was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 595
On this day, July 24, 1998, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Jacob Chestnut and Detective John Gibson were shot and killed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 596
On July 23, 1967, the 1967 Detroit riot began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 598
On this day, July 19, 1969, Senator Kennedy crashed his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 710
On July 18, 1966, the Hough riots began in Cleveland, Ohio. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 611
On the night of July 19, 1952, an air traffic controller at Washington National Airport saw seven objects on his radar. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 769
On July 19, 1919, the Washington race riot of 1919 began. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 549
On July 19, 1969, Apollo 11 went behind the Moon and fired its service propulsion engine to enter lunar orbit. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 511
On this day, July 21, 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2025 4 1735
On July 21, 2003, the Kinzua Viaduct was destroyed by a tornado. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 627
On this day, July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 611
On July 21, 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 540
Pictures from Michael Beschloss; July 21, 2020. From 1944, 1952, 1959, and 1969. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 632
On this day, July 22, 1893, Katharine Lee Bates wrote "America the Beautiful." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 538
On this day, July 22, 1926, Dorcas Reilly, the inventor or popularizer of the green bean casserole, was born. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 912
On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air off the coast of Long Island and crashed in the Atlantic Ocean. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 681
Herblock, July 21, 1974: "How Can They Say He Hasn't Faithfully Executed The Laws?" 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 732

American History Continued...

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On this day, July 17, 1902, Willis Carrier created the first air conditioner, in Buffalo, New York. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 772
100 years: A Route 66 ghost town was 'frozen in time'. Is it on the brink of a comeback? 3 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1432
On July 15, 1979, Jimmy Carter went on TV. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 773
On tis day, July 17, 2001, Katharine Graham died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 638
On July 17, 1975, the commanders of the Apollo and the Soyuz exchanged the first international handshake in space. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 712
On July 15, 1940, Ronald Gene Simmons, the most prolific mass murderer in Arkansas history, was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 661
On this day, July 17, 1944, two ships laden with munitions for World War II exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 647
On this day, July 17, 1941, Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell summoned George Bergstrom and Major Hugh Casey. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 647
On July 16, 1945, the Atomic Age began, and the USS Indianapolis left San Francisco with a secret cargo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 562
On this day, July 17, 1981, a walkway collapsed at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 700
On July 13, 1923, James H. Harvey was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 587
On this day, July 14, 2001, Katharine Graham fell on a sidewalk in Sun Valley, Idaho. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 827
On this day, July 14, 1965, Adlai Stevenson died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 555
On this day, July 14, 1970, the Nixons welcomed Prince Charles and Princess Anne to the White House. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 582
On this day, July 13, 2021, analog TV broadcasting in the United States, other than Alaska, came to an end. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 812
On this day, July 12, 1917, vigilantes kidnapped and deported 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 775
On June 19, 1947, Pan Am Flight 121 crashed following an engine failure and in-flight fire 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 645
On this day, July 12, 1973, the National Personnel Records Center caught on fire. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 819
On the night of July 12, 1979, Disco Demolition Night was held at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 1116
On July 11, 1944, Democratic Party leaders concerned by the president's declining health met with him in the White House 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 893
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