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On June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's funeral train ran from New York City to Washington, D.C. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1050
On June 9 and 10, 1960, the Arlington County, Virginia, lunch counter sit-ins occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 810
On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phuc was burned by napalm. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 892
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1224
57 years ago today, Sirhan B. Sirhan fired the fatal shot... 6 lastlib Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 1598
The Battle of Midway (1942 Documentary Film) 1 sl8 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 973
Why Early America Needed This Unhinged Hero - PBS Origins 1 sl8 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1110
Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 898
Harrison Ruffin Tyler, Grandson of the 10th President, Is Dead at 96 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 6 1043
An account of a very sick FDR struggling to get the United Nations in place as he faded rapidly into death. 2 NNadir May 2025 May 2025 10 1247
Howard Zinn, a people's history of the United States ⚒️Social Full Documentary 3 Goonch May 2025 May 2025 17 1683
His great-grandfather enshrined birthright citizenship. Norman Wong is trying to save it. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 7 816
On May 5, 2009, America's worst day of shame, Barack Obama ordered Dijon mustard on his hamburger. 6 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 14 1734
On this day, May 14, 2022, ten people, all African Americans, were murdered in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 3 824
On May 13, 1958, Eisenhower sent troops to rescue Vice President Nixon when he was endangered. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 5 1072
On this day, May 14, 1607, Jamestown was founded. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 0 755
On this day, May 14, 1961, a Freedom Riders bus was attacked and set on fire near Anniston, Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 729
On this day, May 14, 1988, the deadliest incident involving drunk driving in U.S. history occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 5 1156
On May 15, 1855, Louis Bamberger was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 1 946
Native American community broke up 1958 Maxton NC KKK meeting 2 struggle4progress May 2025 May 2025 4 1250
88 Years Ago Today: German Zeppelin LZ-129 Hindenburg is destroyed at Lakehurst NJ Naval Air Station 1 Dennis Donovan May 2025 May 2025 4 1243
May 5, 1925: High school teacher John T. Scopes is arrested in Dayton, TN for teaching evolution 9 Dennis Donovan May 2025 May 2025 11 2238
It's been 55 years since one of the mass shootings at a school. 15 discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2025 May 2025 16 3039
100 years ago news: The Eastern Chiropractic Institute holds a contest to choose New York's most beautiful back 1 Dennis Donovan May 2025 May 2025 3 1147
The Americans Who Left 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 14 1563
On this day, Saturday, March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 May 2025 11 1805
Happy Appomattox Day! 160 years ago the traitors surrendered 6 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 May 2025 10 1759
On March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not be running for another term. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 1 1066
CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite talking about the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 2 952
On this day, May 2, 1972, J. Edgar Hoover died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 1146

American History Continued...

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On April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang was introduced to the public at the New York World's Fair. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 5 1810
On this day, April 17, 1965, the first pickets in DC for gay rights took place in front of the White House. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 4 1015
On this day, April 22, 1994, Richard Nixon died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 2 1068
On April 21 through April 23, 2020, there was an outbreak of tornadoes across Texas and Oklahoma. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 2 944
On April 23, 1945, the US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenburg concentration camp. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 4 1280
Extremely rare photograph of Harriet Tubman lying in her casket - 1913 12 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 May 2025 81 4461
Photos: A look back at the fall of Saigon and the final days of the Vietnam War 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 1229
For some Americans, the end of the Vietnam War after Saigon fell 50 years ago is still deeply felt 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1109
CBS News: 1975 Evacuation of Saigon 2 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1123
I have started reading Nigel Hamilton's trilogy on FDR as Commander in Chief during the Second World War. 8 NNadir Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 1830
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 509
Geronimo in a Locomobile Model C 0 struggle4progress Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1054
On April 23, 1940, 209 people were killed in the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 1197
On April 23, 1987, 28 construction workers died in the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 833
On this day, April 24, 1980, eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue hostages. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 808
Auschwitz Memorial: 23 April 1945 The US Army liberated the Flossenbrg camp, where they found 1,500 critically ill pr 1 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1071
On April 21, 1910, Mark Twain died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 883
On April 16, 1947, the SS Grandcamp, filled with ammonium nitrate, blew up in Texas City. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1041
On April 20, 1914, the Ludlow Massacre occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 857
On April 19, 1940, 31 people were killed when a New York Central passenger train derailed in Little Falls, New York. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 990
Who Were The Minutemen? 0 Eko Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 1012
On April 17, 2013, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, killed 15 people. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 894
I'm Mike Wallace and this is Biography. Our story: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 0 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 1082
On April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1089
Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 15 1305
On this day, April 18, 1923, Babe Ruth was at the first game in New York City's new Yankee Stadium. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 927
On April 16, 2007, the Virginia Tech school shootings occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 938
On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island accident happened. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1111
250 Years Ago This Month: war was starting 0 eShirl Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1372
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1331

American History Continued...

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On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 1039
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1040
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 840
On March 30, 1954, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson suffered a massive heart attack 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1014
On this day, April 9, 2003, a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was toppled. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 783
On this day, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 951
The Ziegfeld Follies 2 BootinUp Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1208
On Friday, March 28, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 831
On March 29, 1961, police used clubs and German Shepherds to attack Black citizens outside a courthouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 777
On March 29, 1945, Roosevelt went to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, for some rest. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 813
On April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 822
On March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 938
On April 5, 1949, a fire started in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois. 77 people died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 729
On April 5, 2010, twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion in the Upper Big Branch coal mine. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 779
On the night of April 5 - 6, 1936, the 1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 777
On this day, April 4, 1859, Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New York City' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 790
On April 4, 1936, the Hindenburg arrived in Rio de Janeiro. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 836
On April 6, 1958, Capital Airlines Viscount N7437 crashed on final approach to Freeland MI 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 734
On this day, April 8, 1897, there were numerous sightings of UFOs over Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1012
Joe Harris, 108, Dies; Thought to Be the Oldest World War II Paratrooper 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 13 1282
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