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On this day, September 24, 1869, the Black Friday gold panic broke out in the US and triggered a financial crisis. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 5 549
On September 23, 1913, the United Mine Workers of America launched a strike in Colorado. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 484
On this day, September 22, 1993, Amtrak experienced its deadliest train wreck. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 959
On this day, September 22, 1975, Gerald Ford survived his second assassination attempt in 3 weeks. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 852
On this day, September 20, 1967, L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, announced the story of Xenu. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 1004
On the night of September 20, 1776 -- September 21, the Great Fire of New York occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 561
On this day, September 21, 1976, Exiled Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt were killed by a car bomb. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 558
On September 5, 1957, "On the Road" was published. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 832
Virginia: The hidden story of Native tribes who outsmarted Bacon's Rebellion 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 698
On this September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs played tennis on TV. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 616
On this day, September 19, 1921, WBZ started broadcasting. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 5 651
On September 18, 1927, the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System made its debut. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 536
On this day, September 19, 1883, Mabel Vernon was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 505
On this day, September 19, 1995, the Unabomber manifesto was published. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 502
On this day, September 18, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 1265
On this day, September 18, 2008, Ben Bernanke requested a $700 billion fund to acquire toxic mortgages. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 0 548
On this day, September 18, 2001, the first of what became the 2001 anthrax attacks occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 469
On this day, September 18, 1961, conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell were born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 618
General Smedley Butler - War is a Racket - Forgotten History 1 Uncle Joe Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 715
It's Constitution Day. On this day, September 17, 1787, the Constitution was signed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 9 603
On this day, September 16, 2013, a gunman killed twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 674
On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote a poem, "Defence of Fort McHenry." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 658
On September 14, 1901, President William McKinley died, eight days after he was shot. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 547
On this day, September 15, 1963, a bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 6 986
On this day, September 13, 1848, Phineas Gage had a large iron rod driven through his head. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 615
On this day, September 12, 2008, 25 died when two trains collided in Chatsworth, California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 538
On this day, September 12, 1991, the last stoplight was removed from I-90 in Idaho. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 507
On this day, September 12, 1962, Kennedy gave his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 518
On this day, September 12, 2009, agronomist and Nobel Prize recipient Norman Borlaug died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 456
On September 11, 1857, the Mountain Meadows Massacre culminated in the mass slaughter of an emigrant party. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 8 930

American History Continued...

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September 11, 2001: Rick Rescorla, the man who ran back in 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 674
On September 11, 2015, Meadville beat DuBois 107-90 in a Pennsylvania high school football shootout. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 0 603
On September 10, 2001, a Canadian tourist took photographs of downtown Manhattan. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 8 951
On September 8, 1922, Lyndon Larouche was born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 701
On September 5, 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 626
On September 8, 1994, USAir Flight 427 crashed on approach to Pittsburgh. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 876
On September 5, 2020, several boats sank during the Lake Travis Trump Boat Parade. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 6 870
On September 7, 2008, the Feds took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 568
On this day, September 9, 1850, California was admitted into the Union. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 517
On September 7, 1964, The "Daisy" commercial aired on TV. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 6 657
On September 6, 1995, Cal Ripken Jr. played in a baseball game for the 2,131st time in a row. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 571
On September 6, 1869, a continuous railroad line was extended from Omaha to Alameda, California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 657
Rare copy of US Constitution to be sold at auction 1 sl8 Sep 2024 Sep 2024 12 792
On this day, September 4, 2019, Sharpiegate happened. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 700
It's "E Day." On this day, September 4, 1957, the Edsel was introduced. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 784
On this day, September 4, 1957, Elizabeth Eckford attempted to enter Little Rock Central High. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 5 655
On this day, September 4, 1949, the Peekskill riots erupted after a Paul Robeson concert in NY. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 705
On this day, September 4, 2015, same-sex couples were issued marriage licenses in Rowan County, Kentucky. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 620
On this day, September 4, 1882, the electrical age began. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 5 611
On September 1, 1914, Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 773
On August 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3A crashed near Lovettsville VA. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 922
On September 1, 1961, the deadliest (at the time) single plane disaster in U.S. history happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 5 707
On September 1, 1894, the Great Hinckley Fire started. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 577
On September 2, 1885, the Rock Springs massacre occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 570
On this day, September 3, 1925, the USS Shenandoah was destroyed in a squall over Ohio. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 549
Reticence on Policy and the Ranking of America's Greatest Presidents. 1 NNadir Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 778
On this day, August 28, 2014, America was subjected to its most unspeakably horrifying day of shame ever. 10 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 14 1927
On this day, August 29, 2007, Richard Jewell died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 833
On this day, August 29, 1944, troops of the 28th Infantry Division marched down the Champs Elysees. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 600
On this day, August 28, 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 583

American History Continued...

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Emmett Till August 28, 1955 1 spike jones Aug 2024 Aug 2024 6 1056
On this day, August 28, 2003, Brian Wells died during a bank robbery, in a most unusual way. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 983
Brandon Museum & Rec co-host program on Vermont's darker history: eugenics 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 564
On this day, August 27, 1963, an explosion at the Cane Creek potash mine near Moab, Utah, killed 18 miners. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 563
The Battle of Blair Mountain, Largest US Labor Uprising: Aug. 25- Sept. 2, 1921 4 appalachiablue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 1057
Some History Involving RFK Jr., his father, and, um, Joe McCarthy...THAT McCarthy. 11 NNadir Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 1948
On this day, August 26, 1968, the Democratic National convention opened in Chicago. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 691
On this day, August 26, 2021, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport killed 13 US military personnel. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 624
On this day, August 26, 2009, kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard was discovered alive in California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 6 706
On this day, August 26, 2015, two Virginia TV station workers were shot and killed while on the air. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 654
On August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 712
On this day, August 25, 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated while doing the laundry. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 17815
On this day, August 24, 1814, the British set the Presidential Mansion and the Capitol on fire. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 702
On this day, August 24, 1970, the Army Mathematics Research Center at UWisconsin was bombed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 723
On this day, August 24, 1919, Ray Caldwell survived a lightning strike during a baseball game. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 637
Archaeologists in Virginia find colonial-era garden, clues about slaves who tended it 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 11 700
On this day, August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake was felt across the eastern U.S. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 660
On this day, August 23, 1933, the Chesapeake-Potomac hurricane made landfall on the Outer Banks. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 614
On this day, August 23, 1891, Elijah Barrett Prettyman was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 523
On this day, August 22, 1965, SF Giant Juan Marichal hit LA Dodger John Roseboro on the head with a bat. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 954
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