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On this day, February 19, 1999, Billy Jack Gaither was brutally murdered for being gay in Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 19 Feb 19 0 273
On this day, February 18, 1970, the Chicago Seven were found "not guilty" of conspiracy. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 18 Feb 18 0 267
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On this day, February 18, 2001, Dale Earnhardt died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 18 Feb 18 3 314
On this day, February 18, 1848, Louis Comfort Tiffany was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 18 Feb 18 3 254
On this day, February 17, 1970, the family of U.S. Army captain Jeffrey R. MacDonald was found murdered in their home. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 17 Feb 17 1 422
On February 17, 1974, Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzed the White House in a stolen helicopter. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 17 Feb 17 1 332
On February 17, 1864, the H. L. Hunley became the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 17 Feb 17 1 255
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On this day, February 16, 1996, two passenger trains collided in Silver Spring, Maryland. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 16 Feb 16 1 291
On February 15, 1820, Susan B. Anthony was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 16 Feb 16 4 268
On February 15, 1961, the entire US figure-skating team was killed in a plane crash. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 16 Feb 16 0 276
On February 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara attempted to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 16 Feb 16 0 275
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On this day, February 14, 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe took the photograph "Pale Blue Dot." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 14 Feb 14 6 366
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On this day, February 13, 1984, the consumer online service Prodigy was founded. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 13 Feb 13 2 309
On this day, February 13, 1892, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 13 Feb 13 0 225
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On this day, February 12, 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 12 Feb 12 1 241
On this day, February 12, 2004, the city of San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 12 Feb 12 1 228
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On this day, Sunday, February 7, 1904, fire was reported in the John E. Hurst Building in Baltimore. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 7 Feb 7 2 306
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On February 2, 2025, Harry Stewart Jr., One of Last Tuskegee Airmen to See Combat, Died at 100. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 6 Feb 6 4 323
On this day, February 5, 1840, Hiram Maxim was born. His son was Hiram Percy Maxim, of amateur radio fame 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 5 Feb 5 1 353
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On this day, February 5, 2020, Donald Trump was acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 5 Feb 5 0 295
On this day, February 5, 1865, Abraham Lincoln sat for this photograph by Alexander Gardner. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 5 Feb 5 7 446
On this day, February 5, 2020, Trump announced four judicial nominees 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 5 Feb 5 1 329
On this day, February 4, 1913, Rosa Parks was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 4 Feb 5 3 287
On this day, February 3, 1943, the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 3 Feb 3 4 379
On November 26, 1988, Saint Ronnie delivered a radio address on Canadian elections and free trade. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2 Feb 2 4 12768
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On this day, February 1, 1960, the Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 1 Feb 1 2 340
On this day, February 1, 1968, the merger that resulted in the Penn Central occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 1 Feb 1 0 350
On this day, February 1, 1956, Autherine Lucy Foster integrated The University of Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 1 Feb 1 1 304
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On this day, January 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 30 Jan 30 4 370
On February 15, 1961, the entire US figure-skating team was killed in a plane crash. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 30 Jan 30 6 624
On this day, January 30, 1919, Fred Korematsu was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 30 Jan 30 3 388
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On November 1, 1949, a P-38 collided with an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 at Washington National Airport. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 30 Jan 30 3 397
On the night of Saturday, January 28, 1922, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., collapsed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 28 Jan 28 1 303
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On this day, January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in a launchpad capsule fire. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 27 Jan 27 10 439
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On the afternoon of this day, January 27, 1922, snow began to fall in DC. The snow went on all the next day. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 27 Jan 27 2 419
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On this day, January 23, 1920, Fred Morrison, inventor of the "Pluto Platter" flying disc, was born. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 442
On January 23, 1870, some 200 Piegan Blackfeet Indians were massacred at the Marias River in Montana Territory. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 363
On this day, January 22, 1973, Lyndon Baines Johnson died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 398
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On this day, January 21, 1963, the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad ended operation. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 356
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On this day, January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 291
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