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On April 23, 1940, 209 people were killed in the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 2 195
On April 23, 1945, the US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenburg concentration camp. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 3 230
On April 23, 1987, 28 construction workers died in the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 0 165
On this day, April 24, 1980, eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue hostages. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 0 194
Auschwitz Memorial: 23 April 1945 The US Army liberated the Flossenbrg camp, where they found 1,500 critically ill pr 1 Dennis Donovan Wednesday Wednesday 8 275
On April 21, 1910, Mark Twain died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 2 162
On April 16, 1947, the SS Grandcamp, filled with ammonium nitrate, blew up in Texas City. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 4 308
On April 21 through April 23, 2020, there was an outbreak of tornadoes across Texas and Oklahoma. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 1 186
CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite talking about the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 0 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 1 167
On April 20, 1914, the Ludlow Massacre occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 2 215
On this day, April 22, 1994, Richard Nixon died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 2 194
On April 19, 1940, 31 people were killed when a New York Central passenger train derailed in Little Falls, New York. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 0 234
Who Were The Minutemen? 0 Eko Sunday Sunday 2 300
On April 17, 2013, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, killed 15 people. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Sunday 2 191
On April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang was introduced to the public at the New York World's Fair. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Sunday 4 357
I'm Mike Wallace and this is Biography. Our story: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 0 Dennis Donovan Sunday Sunday 10 400
On April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 7 325
Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five 4 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 15 325
On this day, April 18, 1923, Babe Ruth was at the first game in New York City's new Yankee Stadium. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 2 223
On April 16, 2007, the Virginia Tech school shootings occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 17 Apr 17 0 247
On this day, April 17, 1965, the first pickets in DC for gay rights took place in front of the White House. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 17 Apr 17 3 264
On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island accident happened. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 15 2 274
250 Years Ago This Month: war was starting 0 eShirl Apr 13 Apr 13 8 372
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 11 6 407
Happy Appomattox Day! 160 years ago the traitors surrendered 5 Dennis Donovan Apr 9 Apr 10 9 329
On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 1 250
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 6 327
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 10 Apr 10 3 191
On March 30, 1954, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson suffered a massive heart attack 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 4 322
On this day, April 9, 2003, a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was toppled. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 1 233

American History Continued...

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On this day, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 3 268
The Ziegfeld Follies 2 BootinUp Apr 8 Apr 8 4 395
On Friday, March 28, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 1 215
On March 29, 1961, police used clubs and German Shepherds to attack Black citizens outside a courthouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 0 206
On March 29, 1945, Roosevelt went to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, for some rest. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 2 229
On March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not be running for another term. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 0 177
On April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 1 184
On March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 2 282
On April 5, 1949, a fire started in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois. 77 people died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 1 175
On April 5, 2010, twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion in the Upper Big Branch coal mine. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 0 208
On the night of April 5 - 6, 1936, the 1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 1 224
On this day, April 4, 1859, Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New York City' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 2 206
On April 4, 1936, the Hindenburg arrived in Rio de Janeiro. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 1 193
On April 6, 1958, Capital Airlines Viscount N7437 crashed on final approach to Freeland MI 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 0 179
On this day, April 8, 1897, there were numerous sightings of UFOs over Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 8 Apr 8 6 411
Joe Harris, 108, Dies; Thought to Be the Oldest World War II Paratrooper 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 5 Apr 6 13 419
On March 27, 1924, computing pioneer Margaret Butler was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 4 Apr 4 5 263
On this day Mar 25, 2016 Bird lands on Sanders' podium during Portland rally 2 Uncle Joe Mar 31 Mar 31 6 408
Richard Carlson, Journalist Who Led Voice of America, Dies at 84 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 31 Mar 31 2 295
Major General Smedley Butler bares plot by 'Fascists' in Newtown Square Pennsylva...HD Stock Footage 0 Uncle Joe Mar 27 Mar 27 9 453
On this day, Friday, March 27, 2020, this was the front page of The New York Times: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 27 Mar 27 8 492
On this day, March 27, 1960, the last scheduled steam-powered passenger train in the United States ran. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 27 Mar 27 1 368
Along Party Lines 0 Uncle Joe Mar 26 Mar 26 1 245
On this day, March 26, 1997, thirty-nine bodies were found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 26 3 813
On this day, March 26, 1997, thirty-nine bodies were found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 26 Mar 26 0 331
On this day, March 26, 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima ended as the island was officially secured by American forces. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 26 Mar 26 2 232
On this day, March 25, 1911, or maybe one of five other days, Jack Ruby was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 25 Mar 25 1 281
On this day, Saturday, March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 25 Mar 25 10 413
On this day, March 25, 1947, there was an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 coal mine. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 25 Mar 25 3 338
On this day, March 25, 1914, Norman Borlaug was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 25 Mar 25 3 260

American History Continued...

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On March 23, 1977, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, opened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 25 Mar 25 1 253
On this day, March 24, 1839, the last detachment of Cherokee people arrived in Indian Territory. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 24 Mar 24 3 351
On March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 24 Mar 24 3 273
On March 22, 1945, Eleanor and Franklin went to Union Station to meet the visiting Governor General of Canada. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 24 Mar 24 3 297
On March 22, 1984, teachers at a preschool were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 24 Mar 24 1 263
On March 23, 2005, the Texas City refinery explosion occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 24 Mar 24 1 348
On March 23, 1923, the oldest extant high school AM radio station in the United States was licensed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 24 Mar 24 4 265
Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 23 Mar 23 0 267
WCBB's Angus King "A Conversation with Margaret Chase Smith" 1988 1 eShirl Mar 23 Mar 23 1 294
On this day, Friday, March 21, 1952, Alan Freed presented the Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 21 Mar 21 0 328
On March 19, 1987, Jim Bakker resigned from PTL. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 20 Mar 20 2 362
On March 20, 1949, the California Zephyr made its first run. Its last run was on March 22, 1970. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 20 Mar 20 5 365
On March 17, 1933, Myrlie Louise Beasley was born. In 1951, she married Medgar Evers. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 19 Mar 19 3 274
Larry Buendorf, U.S. Agent Who Saved President Ford, Dies at 87; Sunday, March 16, 2025 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 19 Mar 19 0 359
Ron Nessen, press secretary to President Ford, dies at 90; Friday, March 14, 2025 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 19 Mar 19 3 282
On this day, March 19, 1945, a Japanese dive bomber hit the USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 19 Mar 19 4 377
On this day, March 19, 1979, C-SPAN started operation. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 19 Mar 19 1 237
On this day, March 19, 1958, the Monarch Underwear Company fire occured. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 19 Mar 19 1 265
On March 18, 1925, the Tri-State tornado hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 19 Mar 19 3 272
On March 18, 1990, the largest art theft in US history happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 19 Mar 19 2 281
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