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On this day, June 1, 1944, American Rangers were poised on a British landing craft in Weymouth, England. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 0 282
On this day, June 1, 1963, young Black people were prevented from entering Bishop's Restaurant in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 3 238
On May 31, 2019, thirteen people died in a shooting inside a municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 0 150
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On this day 2 years ago, President Donald Trump became the first American president to be convicted of felony 2 LetMyPeopleVote Sunday Sunday 4 262
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On May 23, 1903, Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker set off to cross the United States in an automobile. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 25 May 25 6 459
On May 30, 1963, JFK made what would become his final Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 25 May 25 6 290
At 9:00 a.m. on May 23, 1865, Maj. Gen. George Meade led the Army of the Potomac down the streets of Washington D.C. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 25 May 25 3 336
On May 21, 1924, Leopold and Loeb kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 25 May 25 6 534
Eleven days before his death, Robert Kennedy as if looking into the future, Astoria OR, May 24, 1968 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 25 May 25 5 415
On May 22, 1949, James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense, died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 25 May 25 1 385
On the night of May 21, 1979, the "White Night" riots in San Francisco occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 25 May 25 4 365
On this day, May 25, 1961, President Kennedy called for a manned lunar landing. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 25 May 25 4 209
On May 23, 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died outside Gibsland, Louisiana. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 25 May 25 7 385
CBS News Radio signs off Friday night after nearly 100 years of broadcasting: "An American institution" 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 22 May 22 10 492
Sam Sianis, 'Cheezborger'-Flipping Owner of Chicago's Billy Goat Tavern, Dies at 91 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 21 May 21 8 406
On May 11, 1951, The Lawrence Welk Show began as a local program on KTLA in Los Angeles 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 20 May 20 2 350
Doris 'Dorie' Miller 'Hero of Pearl Harbor' Dec. 7, 1941 USS West Virginia 'Above & Beyond the Call of Duty' WW2 0 appalachiablue May 20 May 20 11 589
On May 15, 1855, Louis Bamberger was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 19 May 19 0 385
"Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 19 May 19 6 697
On this day, May 18, 1927, the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 18 May 18 8 585
On May 15, 1979, Willie Nelson and Charley Pride presented Jimmy Carter with a gold record. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 17 May 17 10 501
On May 15, 2008, California became the second U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 17 May 17 0 394
On May 15, 1916, Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 17 May 17 3 400
On this day, May 15, 1979, Willie Nelson and Charley Pride presented Jimmy Carter with a gold record. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 17 7 1135
On May 14, 1945, house painter Albert Stevens was injected with the highest known accumulated radiation dose in a human. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 17 May 17 8 777
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation in public education was unconstitutional. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 17 May 17 3 496
On May 15, 1970, Mississippi Police Opened Fire on Crowd of Jackson State College Students, Killing Two 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 16 May 16 9 535
On May 13, 1993, Bill Clinton got a haircut while on board Air Force One at LAX. 4 mahatmakanejeeves May 16 May 16 17 794
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On this day, May 14, 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition set out from Camp Dubois, Illinois. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 14 May 14 5 525
On May 13, 1958, Eisenhower sent troops to rescue Vice President Nixon when he was endangered. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 14 May 14 8 548
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On this day, May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg floated high over Manhattan on its way to NAS Lakehurst. 4 mahatmakanejeeves May 6 May 6 4 670
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 1144
On May 2, 1939, Lou Gehrig took the day off. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 4 529
On May 1, 1971, Amtrak began operation. 6 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 4 1017
On the night of April 30, 2011, Donald Trump attended the WH Correspondents' Association dinner. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 5 May 5 3 642
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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 3 320
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On April 29, 1970, U.S. troops entered Cambodia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 4 May 4 0 400
On May 3, 1963, "Bull" Connor turned fire hoses and police dogs on schoolchildren walking in Birmingham. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 4 May 4 4 679
On this day, May 2, 1972, J. Edgar Hoover died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2 May 3 2 522
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