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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 1225
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 2174
It's been 55 years since one of the mass shootings at a school. 15 discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2025 May 2025 16 2940
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 1124
The Americans Who Left 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 14 1535
On this day, Saturday, March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 May 2025 11 1773
Happy Appomattox Day! 160 years ago the traitors surrendered 6 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 May 2025 10 1713
On March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not be running for another term. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 1 1041
CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite talking about the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 2 930
On this day, May 2, 1972, J. Edgar Hoover died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 2 1112
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 1753
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 4 994
On this day, April 22, 1994, Richard Nixon died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 2 1046
On April 21 through April 23, 2020, there was an outbreak of tornadoes across Texas and Oklahoma. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 2 914
On April 23, 1945, the US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenburg concentration camp. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 May 2025 4 1252
Extremely rare photograph of Harriet Tubman lying in her casket - 1913 12 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 May 2025 81 4345
Photos: A look back at the fall of Saigon and the final days of the Vietnam War 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 May 2025 4 1201
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 1083
CBS News: 1975 Evacuation of Saigon 2 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1095
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 1777
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 496
Geronimo in a Locomobile Model C 0 struggle4progress Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1030
On April 23, 1940, 209 people were killed in the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 1169
On April 23, 1987, 28 construction workers died in the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 808
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 1 789
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 1038
On April 21, 1910, Mark Twain died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 861
On April 16, 1947, the SS Grandcamp, filled with ammonium nitrate, blew up in Texas City. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1019
On April 20, 1914, the Ludlow Massacre occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 836
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 0 965

American History Continued...

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Who Were The Minutemen? 0 Eko Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 992
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 2 874
I'm Mike Wallace and this is Biography. Our story: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 0 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 1062
On April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1063
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 1254
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 2 909
On April 16, 2007, the Virginia Tech school shootings occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 916
On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island accident happened. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1080
250 Years Ago This Month: war was starting 0 eShirl Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1346
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1298
On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 1016
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1018
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 821
On March 30, 1954, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson suffered a massive heart attack 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 990
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 1 763
On this day, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 933
The Ziegfeld Follies 2 BootinUp Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1175
On Friday, March 28, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 806
On March 29, 1961, police used clubs and German Shepherds to attack Black citizens outside a courthouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 756
On March 29, 1945, Roosevelt went to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, for some rest. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 795
On April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 796
On March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 914
On April 5, 1949, a fire started in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois. 77 people died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 710
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 0 762
On the night of April 5 - 6, 1936, the 1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 759
On this day, April 4, 1859, Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New York City' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 760
On April 4, 1936, the Hindenburg arrived in Rio de Janeiro. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 823
On April 6, 1958, Capital Airlines Viscount N7437 crashed on final approach to Freeland MI 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 715
On this day, April 8, 1897, there were numerous sightings of UFOs over Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 995
Joe Harris, 108, Dies; Thought to Be the Oldest World War II Paratrooper 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 13 1247

American History Continued...

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On March 27, 1924, computing pioneer Margaret Butler was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 777
On this day Mar 25, 2016 Bird lands on Sanders' podium during Portland rally 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1228
Richard Carlson, Journalist Who Led Voice of America, Dies at 84 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 974
Major General Smedley Butler bares plot by 'Fascists' in Newtown Square Pennsylva...HD Stock Footage 0 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1161
On this day, Friday, March 27, 2020, this was the front page of The New York Times: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1045
On this day, March 27, 1960, the last scheduled steam-powered passenger train in the United States ran. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 983
Along Party Lines 0 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 788
On this day, March 26, 1997, thirty-nine bodies were found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2025 3 1439
On this day, March 26, 1997, thirty-nine bodies were found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 997
On this day, March 26, 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima ended as the island was officially secured by American forces. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 718
On this day, March 25, 1911, or maybe one of five other days, Jack Ruby was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 839
On this day, March 25, 1947, there was an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 coal mine. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 891
On this day, March 25, 1914, Norman Borlaug was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 789
On March 23, 1977, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, opened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 793
On this day, March 24, 1839, the last detachment of Cherokee people arrived in Indian Territory. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1132
On March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 748
On March 22, 1945, Eleanor and Franklin went to Union Station to meet the visiting Governor General of Canada. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 834
On March 22, 1984, teachers at a preschool were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 842
On March 23, 2005, the Texas City refinery explosion occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 929
On March 23, 1923, the oldest extant high school AM radio station in the United States was licensed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 786
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