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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 1316
On March 27, 1960, the last regularly scheduled steam-powered passenger train in the US ran. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1442
On this day, March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island accident happened. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 861
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 1539
On this day, March 25, 1914, Norman Borlaug was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 830
On this day, March 25, 1947, there was an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 coal mine. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1109
On this day, March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 1193
On this day, March 24, 1839, the last detachment of Cherokee people arrived in Indian Territory. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 1337
On this day, March 18, 1937, the New London School explosion occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1028
On this day, March 19, 1958, the Monarch Underwear Company fire occured. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1251
On March 18, 1966, Studebaker finally shut down. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 946
On March 17, 1933, Myrlie Louise Beasley was born. In 1951, she married Medgar Evers. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1044
On March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr was flying helicopter reconnaissance at My Lai. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1329
On this day, March 17, 1948, the Hells Angels were formed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1047
On this day, March 17, 1945, the "Bridge at Remagen" collapsed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1055
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 1117
On this day, March 15, 1933, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1202
On this day, March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1259
Opinion: My neighbor found Lincoln's hair in his basement. I found a mystery. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1374
Former Rep. Pat Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat who championed legislation on family leave 3 elleng Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1105
On this day, March 13, 1961, JFK proposed the Alliance for Progress in Latin America 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1179
On March 12, 1933, Roosevelt delivered his first fireside chat. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 790
On this day, March 11, 1965, the Reverend James Reeb of Boston, beaten in Selma, died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1169
On this day, March 11, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1007
On this day, March 10, 1913, Harriet Tubman died. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1159
FDR's Ambassador in London and his 21-year-old son Jack departing for Paris, today 1939: 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1209
On the night of March 9-10, 1945, the American Army Air Force firebombed Tokyo. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1140
On this day, March 9, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to Congress. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1119
On this day, March 9, 2009, the bear market of 2007-2009 bottomed out. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 979
President Harry Truman on spring break, Key West, this month 1952: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 860

American History Continued...

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This day, March 7, 1965, turned into "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1263
March 8, 1945: FDR greets officers and men of the 6th Ranger Battalion in the Oval Office. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1128
On this day, March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 972
On March 5, 1770, Crispus Attucks and four others were killed in the Boston Massacre. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1141
On this day, March 6, 1857, the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford was handed down. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1201
On this day, March 4, several presidents were inaugurated. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1139
Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. marshal 2 discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1025
Harry Truman's White House lunch and dinner menu, today 1952: 14 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 10 2287
On Monday, March 3, 1913, there was a women's suffrage parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in DC. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 1195
First issue of Time Magazine, dated March 3, 1923, featured House Speaker Joe Cannon: 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 911
This was a unique performance...giving a newsman a government salary to attack the administration... 4 NNadir Feb 2023 Mar 2023 2 1867
On March 1, 1933, FDR left Hyde Park, headed to Washington DC for his inauguration. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1027
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 1116
On this day, February 25, 1946, the Columbia Race Riot of 1946 broke out. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 3 1312
On February 23, 1945, Joe Rosenthal took this picture: 11 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 43 4008
What American had connections to 3 Presidential assasinations? 18 Kaleva Feb 2023 Feb 2023 8 2137
On this day, February 21, 1925, The New Yorker published its first issue. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 1263
An 1847 Letter to the President of the United States, Relating to His Trafficking in Human Beings. 0 NNadir Feb 2023 Feb 2023 10 1488
On this day, February 18, 1848, Louis Comfort Tiffany was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 4 897
On this day, February 18, 1970, the Chicago Seven were found "not guilty" of conspiracy. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1182
On Valentine's Day 1962, Jacqueline Kennedy welcomed audiences into the newly restored White House. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 8 868
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 1634
Bob Orben, comedy writer who crafted Gerald Ford's speeches, dies at 95 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 1006
On February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 11 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1696
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith 3 elleng Feb 2023 Feb 2023 22 1640
White House Historical Association 0 elleng Feb 2023 Feb 2023 6 846
As an old slide librarian 1 BittyJenkins Feb 2023 Feb 2023 4 1551
Bust of former chief justice, proslavery Marylander removed from US Capitol 3 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 7 1214
On this day, Sunday, February 7, 1904, the Great Baltimore Fire began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 1112
On February 5, 1865, Abraham Lincoln sat for this photograph by Alexander Gardner. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 14 1403

American History Continued...

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On this day, February 4, 1913, Rosa Parks was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 2 968
On this day, February 3, 1943, the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2023 16 1853
Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery, was passed by House today 1865, signed by Lincoln next day 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1073
On this day, January 30, 1919, Fred Korematsu was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 989
On this day, January 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 957
On this day, Friday, January 27, 1922, the Knickerbocker Storm started. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1187
January 27, 1967: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee die in launchpad capsule fire 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 7 1313
Jean Veloz, celebrated 1940s Lindy Hop dancer, dies at 98 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 6 1026
Arthur Duncan, pioneering Black tap dancer, dies at 97 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 8 1125
Justice Thurgood Marshall died three decades ago today: 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1036
Horror & Heroism, Air Florida Plane Crash, Wash. DC, Jan. 13, 1982- 41 Yrs Ago: Graphic Images, Info 12 appalachiablue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 7 3004
On this day, January 23, 1870, the Marias massacre occurred. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 27 2004
Do you know about Dorothy Parker's connection to Martin Luther King, Jr? 7 elleng Jan 2023 Jan 2023 18 1753
They Posed As Master & Slave, The Saga of Ellen and Wm. Craft: Book Review, LAT 2 appalachiablue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 12 1835
On this day, January 17, 1961, outgoing Pres. Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 9 1248
On January 17, 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was taken into Soviet custody. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 1083
On this day, January 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1050
"A Republic, if you can keep it." On this date, January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 6 1226
On January 16, 1786, the Virginia General Assembly passed the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 2 1225
On this day, January 15, 1953, a Pennsylvania RR passenger train crashed into DC's Union Station. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jan 2023 3 1437
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