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On May 11, 1951, The Lawrence Welk Show began as a local program on KTLA in Los Angeles 0 mahatmakanejeeves 3 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 2 174
Doris 'Dorie' Miller 'Hero of Pearl Harbor' Dec. 7, 1941 USS West Virginia 'Above & Beyond the Call of Duty' WW2 0 appalachiablue 10 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 11 365
On May 15, 1855, Louis Bamberger was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 0 266
"Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 6 358
On this day, May 18, 1927, the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 8 411
On May 15, 1979, Willie Nelson and Charley Pride presented Jimmy Carter with a gold record. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 10 335
On May 15, 2008, California became the second U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 0 272
On May 15, 1916, Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 3 298
On this day, May 15, 1979, Willie Nelson and Charley Pride presented Jimmy Carter with a gold record. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 Sunday 7 1009
On May 14, 1945, house painter Albert Stevens was injected with the highest known accumulated radiation dose in a human. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 8 565
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation in public education was unconstitutional. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 3 355
On May 15, 1970, Mississippi Police Opened Fire on Crowd of Jackson State College Students, Killing Two 0 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 9 407
On May 13, 1993, Bill Clinton got a haircut while on board Air Force One at LAX. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 17 633
"I shrink from butchery" 0 orangecrush Saturday Saturday 4 430
On this day, May 14, 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition set out from Camp Dubois, Illinois. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 5 389
On May 13, 1958, Eisenhower sent troops to rescue Vice President Nixon when he was endangered. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 8 440
On this day, May 14, 1988, the deadliest incident involving drunk driving in U.S. history occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 7 452
On this day, May 14, 1961, a Freedom Riders bus was attacked and set on fire near Anniston, Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 6 264
On this day, May 14, 2022, ten people, all African Americans, were murdered in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 3 256
Gore Vidal on Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis (April 18, 2002) 0 BootinUp Wednesday Wednesday 2 320
Bobby Cox, Hall of Fame manager of Atlanta Braves, dies at age 84 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 10 May 10 5 329
Everyone Remembers Paul Revere's Midnight Ride. His Forgotten Race to Secure a Trove of Documents 2 G_j May 6 May 6 6 447
On this day, May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg floated high over Manhattan on its way to NAS Lakehurst. 4 mahatmakanejeeves May 6 May 6 4 543
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 1058
On May 2, 1939, Lou Gehrig took the day off. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 4 443
On May 1, 1971, Amtrak began operation. 6 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 4 818
On the night of April 30, 2011, Donald Trump attended the WH Correspondents' Association dinner. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 3 549
On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 1 286
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 3 249
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 9 593

American History Continued...

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On April 29, 1970, U.S. troops entered Cambodia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 4 May 4 0 317
On May 3, 1963, "Bull" Connor turned fire hoses and police dogs on schoolchildren walking in Birmingham. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 4 May 4 4 506
On this day, May 2, 1972, J. Edgar Hoover died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2 May 3 2 427
Donald W. Riegle, Representative Who Switched Parties, Dies at 88 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 28 Apr 28 7 492
Lionel Rosenblatt Dies at 82; Led Daring Rescue of Vietnamese Refugees 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 Apr 25 9 532
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 3 683
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 4 399
Inside Frank Lloyd Wright's Hidden Woodland Utopia Unique Spaces Architectural Digest 0 Uncle Joe Apr 25 Apr 25 6 622
On April 23, 1951, Barbara Johns launched a student strike for equal education in Virginia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 3 366
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 2 367
On April 23, 1945, the US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenburg concentration camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 24 Apr 24 5 473
On April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 3 538
On April 16, 1947, the SS Grandcamp, filled with ammonium nitrate, blew up in Texas City. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 2 510
Considering History: Jackie Robinson, Japanese Americans, and the Best of American Sports and Community 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 1 333
On this day, April 23, 1987, 28 construction workers died in the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 0 406
On this day, April 23, 1940, 209 people were killed in the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 23 Apr 23 2 375
On this day, April 22, 1994, Richard Nixon died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 3 556
On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite narrated a special report. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 7 547
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 10 742
On this day, April 21, 1910, Mark Twain died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 Apr 21 6 514
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 6 455
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 4 532
On this day, April 20, 1914, approximately 21 people were killed in the Ludlow Massacre. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 20 Apr 20 2 1471
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 7 664
Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 19 6 458
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 5 665
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 5 603
Ishmael Jaffree, Who Won Case Rejecting School Prayer, Is Dead at 80 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 15 Apr 15 9 616
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 5 598
On this day, April 12, 1955, it was announced that the polio vaccine Jonas Salk developed was safe. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 12 Apr 12 6 652

American History Continued...

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On this day, April 11, 1945, American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 11 Apr 11 6 561
On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 2 755
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 2 515
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 3 537
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 3 544
Martin Gugino, Activist Shoved by Buffalo Police at 2020 Protest, Dies 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 649
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 514
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 2 513
On this day, April 9, 1939, Easter Sunday, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 4 663
Has any American President ever received a Tito letter? 5 Wolf Frankula Apr 8 Apr 9 3 902
'Duck and Cover,' Nuclear Attack Civil Defence Film 1952; Lewis Black Comedy Gold 5 appalachiablue Apr 8 Apr 8 2 787
PBS: How Thoreau Told the Stories of the Black Community near Walden 1 marmar Apr 8 Apr 8 8 617
PBS: FDR's Path to the White House (1884-1933) 2 marmar Apr 8 Apr 8 4 658
For baseball fans: 0 discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 8 Apr 8 7 700
Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution FULL EPISODE 1 (from PBS's youtube) 2 eShirl Apr 7 Apr 7 2 739
On this day, April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 7 Apr 7 5 440
April 6, 1712, In Labor History: One Of The First Slave Revolts, In New York City 0 erronis Apr 6 Apr 6 4 523
On this day, April 5, 1976, a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts, took this picture. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 5 Apr 5 45 2159
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 3 999
On this day, March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up and removed. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 30 Mar 30 9 740
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