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On this day, April 6, 1958, Capital Airlines Viscount N7437 crashed on final approach to Freeland MI 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 1194
On this day, April 5, 2010, twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 928
On this day, April 5, 1949, a fire started in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois. 77 people died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1040
On this day, April 4, 1968 0 snowybirdie Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 935
On this day, April 4, 1936, the Hindenburg arrived in Rio de Janeiro. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 1100
April 3, 1968 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2023 9 877
On this day, April 3, 1860, the Pony Express began operation. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1235
On this day, March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1339
On March 29, 1961, police use clubs and German Shepherds to attack Black citizens outside courthouse 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1200
On March 28, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 975
On March 29, 1945, Roosevelt went to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, for some rest. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1328
On March 27, 1960, the last regularly scheduled steam-powered passenger train in the US ran. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1449
On this day, March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island accident happened. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 869
So I'm reading one of the most brilliant explorations of American Racism that I've ever read. 1 NNadir Mar 2023 Mar 2023 27 1546
On this day, March 25, 1914, Norman Borlaug was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 835
On this day, March 25, 1947, there was an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 coal mine. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1116
On this day, March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 1202
On this day, March 24, 1839, the last detachment of Cherokee people arrived in Indian Territory. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 1341
On this day, March 18, 1937, the New London School explosion occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1035
On this day, March 19, 1958, the Monarch Underwear Company fire occured. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1257
On March 18, 1966, Studebaker finally shut down. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 953
On March 17, 1933, Myrlie Louise Beasley was born. In 1951, she married Medgar Evers. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1050
On March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr was flying helicopter reconnaissance at My Lai. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1337
On this day, March 17, 1948, the Hells Angels were formed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1055
On this day, March 17, 1945, the "Bridge at Remagen" collapsed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1062
On this day, March 16, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had the largest point drop in history. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1129
On this day, March 15, 1933, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1212
On this day, March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1268
Opinion: My neighbor found Lincoln's hair in his basement. I found a mystery. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1381
Former Rep. Pat Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat who championed legislation on family leave 3 elleng Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1116

American History Continued...

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On this day, March 13, 1961, JFK proposed the Alliance for Progress in Latin America 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1186
On March 12, 1933, Roosevelt delivered his first fireside chat. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 798
On this day, March 11, 1965, the Reverend James Reeb of Boston, beaten in Selma, died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1176
On this day, March 11, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1011
On this day, March 10, 1913, Harriet Tubman died. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1170
FDR's Ambassador in London and his 21-year-old son Jack departing for Paris, today 1939: 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1215
On the night of March 9-10, 1945, the American Army Air Force firebombed Tokyo. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1148
On this day, March 9, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to Congress. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1129
On this day, March 9, 2009, the bear market of 2007-2009 bottomed out. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 985
President Harry Truman on spring break, Key West, this month 1952: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 865
This day, March 7, 1965, turned into "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1275
March 8, 1945: FDR greets officers and men of the 6th Ranger Battalion in the Oval Office. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1134
On this day, March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 978
On March 5, 1770, Crispus Attucks and four others were killed in the Boston Massacre. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1146
On this day, March 6, 1857, the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford was handed down. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1206
On this day, March 4, several presidents were inaugurated. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1146
Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. marshal 2 discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1035
Harry Truman's White House lunch and dinner menu, today 1952: 14 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 10 2333
On Monday, March 3, 1913, there was a women's suffrage parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in DC. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 1202
First issue of Time Magazine, dated March 3, 1923, featured House Speaker Joe Cannon: 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 916
This was a unique performance...giving a newsman a government salary to attack the administration... 4 NNadir Feb 2023 Mar 2023 2 1877
On March 1, 1933, FDR left Hyde Park, headed to Washington DC for his inauguration. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1037
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 1123
On this day, February 25, 1946, the Columbia Race Riot of 1946 broke out. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 3 1317
On February 23, 1945, Joe Rosenthal took this picture: 11 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 43 4043
What American had connections to 3 Presidential assasinations? 18 Kaleva Feb 2023 Feb 2023 8 2178
On this day, February 21, 1925, The New Yorker published its first issue. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 1267
An 1847 Letter to the President of the United States, Relating to His Trafficking in Human Beings. 0 NNadir Feb 2023 Feb 2023 10 1494
On this day, February 18, 1848, Louis Comfort Tiffany was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 4 902
On this day, February 18, 1970, the Chicago Seven were found "not guilty" of conspiracy. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1189

American History Continued...

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On Valentine's Day 1962, Jacqueline Kennedy welcomed audiences into the newly restored White House. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 8 873
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 1646
Bob Orben, comedy writer who crafted Gerald Ford's speeches, dies at 95 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 1012
On February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 11 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1722
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith 3 elleng Feb 2023 Feb 2023 22 1650
White House Historical Association 0 elleng Feb 2023 Feb 2023 6 850
As an old slide librarian 1 BittyJenkins Feb 2023 Feb 2023 4 1560
Bust of former chief justice, proslavery Marylander removed from US Capitol 3 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 7 1226
On this day, Sunday, February 7, 1904, the Great Baltimore Fire began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1118
On February 5, 1865, Abraham Lincoln sat for this photograph by Alexander Gardner. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 14 1408
On this day, February 4, 1913, Rosa Parks was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 975
On this day, February 3, 1943, the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 16 1859
Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery, was passed by House today 1865, signed by Lincoln next day 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1077
On this day, January 30, 1919, Fred Korematsu was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 994
On this day, January 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 964
On this day, Friday, January 27, 1922, the Knickerbocker Storm started. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1196
January 27, 1967: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee die in launchpad capsule fire 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 7 1323
Jean Veloz, celebrated 1940s Lindy Hop dancer, dies at 98 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 6 1033
Arthur Duncan, pioneering Black tap dancer, dies at 97 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 8 1134
Justice Thurgood Marshall died three decades ago today: 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1040
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