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On this day, May 14, 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition set out from Camp Dubois, Illinois. 3 mahatmakanejeeves 12 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 5 291
On May 13, 1958, Eisenhower sent troops to rescue Vice President Nixon when he was endangered. 1 mahatmakanejeeves 12 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 8 356
On this day, May 14, 1988, the deadliest incident involving drunk driving in U.S. history occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves 12 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 7 352
On this day, May 14, 1961, a Freedom Riders bus was attacked and set on fire near Anniston, Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 6 196
On this day, May 14, 2022, ten people, all African Americans, were murdered in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. 0 mahatmakanejeeves 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 3 181
Gore Vidal on Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis (April 18, 2002) 0 BootinUp Wednesday Wednesday 1 266
Bobby Cox, Hall of Fame manager of Atlanta Braves, dies at age 84 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 5 293
Everyone Remembers Paul Revere's Midnight Ride. His Forgotten Race to Secure a Trove of Documents 2 G_j May 6 May 6 6 398
On this day, May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg floated high over Manhattan on its way to NAS Lakehurst. 4 mahatmakanejeeves May 6 May 6 4 489
On this day, May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 6 0 1015
On May 2, 1939, Lou Gehrig took the day off. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 4 391
On May 1, 1971, Amtrak began operation. 6 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 4 678
On the night of April 30, 2011, Donald Trump attended the WH Correspondents' Association dinner. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 3 490
On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 1 256
On this day, May 5, 1961, "Freedom 7" launched from Cape Canaveral, carrying Alan Shepard, the first American in space. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 3 217
America recalls the hellish agony of May 5, 2009: the day Barack Hussein Obama ordered Dijon mustard on his hamburger. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 9 515
On April 29, 1970, U.S. troops entered Cambodia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 4 May 4 0 275
On May 3, 1963, "Bull" Connor turned fire hoses and police dogs on schoolchildren walking in Birmingham. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 4 May 4 3 444
On this day, May 2, 1972, J. Edgar Hoover died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2 May 3 2 378
Donald W. Riegle, Representative Who Switched Parties, Dies at 88 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 28 Apr 28 7 447
Lionel Rosenblatt Dies at 82; Led Daring Rescue of Vietnamese Refugees 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 9 482
On this day, April 25, 1946, 45 people were killed and some 125 were injured in a train wreck in Naperville, Illinois. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 3 620
On this day, April 25, 1945, United States and Soviet troops met in Torgau and Strehla along the Elbe River. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 4 365
Inside Frank Lloyd Wright's Hidden Woodland Utopia Unique Spaces Architectural Digest 0 Uncle Joe Apr 25 Apr 25 6 592
On April 23, 1951, Barbara Johns launched a student strike for equal education in Virginia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 3 335
On this day, April 24, 1980, eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue hostages. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 2 329
On April 23, 1945, the US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenburg concentration camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 5 438
On April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 3 486
On April 16, 1947, the SS Grandcamp, filled with ammonium nitrate, blew up in Texas City. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 2 469
Considering History: Jackie Robinson, Japanese Americans, and the Best of American Sports and Community 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 1 301

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On this day, April 23, 1987, 28 construction workers died in the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 0 371
On this day, April 23, 1940, 209 people were killed in the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 2 342
On this day, April 22, 1994, Richard Nixon died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 3 503
On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite narrated a special report. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 7 510
On April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang was introduced to the public at the New York World's Fair. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 10 655
On this day, April 21, 1910, Mark Twain died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 6 461
On April 17, 1965, the first pickets in DC for gay rights took place in front of the White House. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 6 422
On this day, April 19, 1993, 76 people died when the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, was set fire. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 19 Apr 20 4 486
On this day, April 20, 1914, approximately 21 people were killed in the Ludlow Massacre. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 20 Apr 20 2 1431
On this day, April 19, 1995, 168 people were killed in the truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 19 Apr 19 7 610
Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 19 6 419
On this day, April 19, 1927, Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 19 Apr 19 5 614
Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 18 5 563
Ishmael Jaffree, Who Won Case Rejecting School Prayer, Is Dead at 80 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 15 Apr 15 9 580
On this day, April 13, 1873, the Ku Klux Klan carried out the Colfax Massacre in response to an 1872 Republican victory. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 13 Apr 13 5 563
On this day, April 12, 1955, it was announced that the polio vaccine Jonas Salk developed was safe. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 12 Apr 12 6 594
On this day, April 11, 1945, American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 11 Apr 11 6 531
On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 2 712
On April 5, 2010, twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion in the Upper Big Branch coal mine. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 2 478
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 3 508
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 3 516
Martin Gugino, Activist Shoved by Buffalo Police at 2020 Protest, Dies 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 607
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 483
On this day, April 9, 2003, a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was toppled. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 2 465
On this day, April 9, 1939, Easter Sunday, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 4 623
Has any American President ever received a Tito letter? 5 Wolf Frankula Apr 8 Apr 9 3 833
'Duck and Cover,' Nuclear Attack Civil Defence Film 1952; Lewis Black Comedy Gold 5 appalachiablue Apr 8 Apr 8 2 713
PBS: How Thoreau Told the Stories of the Black Community near Walden 1 marmar Apr 8 Apr 8 8 576
PBS: FDR's Path to the White House (1884-1933) 2 marmar Apr 8 Apr 8 4 621
For baseball fans: 0 discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 8 Apr 8 7 675

American History Continued...

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Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution FULL EPISODE 1 (from PBS's youtube) 2 eShirl Apr 7 Apr 7 2 698
On this day, April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 7 Apr 7 5 417
April 6, 1712, In Labor History: One Of The First Slave Revolts, In New York City 0 erronis Apr 6 Apr 6 4 495
On this day, April 5, 1976, a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts, took this picture. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 5 Apr 5 45 2112
On this day, June 24, 1994, a B-52 crashed at Fairchild Air Force Base during practice for an airshow. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 Apr 3 3 949
On this day, March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up and removed. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 30 Mar 30 9 689
On this day, March 30, 1954, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson suffered a massive heart attack 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 30 Mar 30 5 620
PBS: The Final Battle for the 19th Amendment (1916-1920) 0 marmar Mar 30 Mar 30 7 527
On March 29, 1961, police used clubs and German Shepherds to attack Black citizens outside a courthouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 30 Mar 30 5 485
On March 29, 1945, Roosevelt left DC for the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, for some rest. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 30 Mar 30 9 553
On this day, March 28, 1979, there was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 at Three Mile Island. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 28 Mar 30 6 682
PBS: The Black Congresswoman They DON'T Teach You About 21 marmar Mar 29 Mar 29 49 2294
On March 28, 1898, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 29 Mar 29 2 627
On this day, Friday, March 28, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 28 Mar 28 3 470
On this day, March 28, 1979, the Supreme Court handed down a 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 28 Mar 28 6 588
On this day, March 27, 1960, the last scheduled steam-powered passenger train in the United States ran. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 27 Mar 27 1 613
On this day, Friday, March 27, 2020, this was the front page of The New York Times: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 27 Mar 27 10 765
Lester Maddox and Jim Brown Get Into Heated Debate on Segregation The Dick Cavett Show 2 BootinUp Mar 26 Mar 26 9 760
At 4:40 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire flared up at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. 9 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 25 Mar 25 13 1665
On this day, March 25, 1911, or maybe one of five other days, Jack Ruby was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 25 Mar 25 2 524
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