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On this day, July 23, 1967, the 1967 Detroit riot began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 884
On this day, July 23, 1928;. Vera Rubin was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 551
On this day, July 22, 1893, Katharine Lee Bates wrote "America the Beautiful." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 744
Pictures from Michael Beschloss; July 21, 2020. From 1944, 1952, 1959, and 1969. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 16 828
On this day, July 21, 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 908
On this day, July 21, 2003, the Kinzua Viaduct was destroyed by a tornado. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 636
July 13, 2021, was the last day of analog TV in the United States, other than Alaska. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 888
During this week in July 1952, Washington, DC, was visited by UFOs. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 7 675
On this day, July 19, 1845, the Great New York City Fire of 1845 occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 671
On this day, July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 783
On this day, July 18, 1966, the Hough riots began in Cleveland, Ohio. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 593
On this day, July 14, 1970, the Nixons welcomed Prince Charles and Princess Anne to the White House. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 1012
On this day, July 14, 1965, Adlai Stevenson died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 473
On this day, July 14, 2001, Katharine Graham fell on a sidewalk while in Sun Valley, Idaho. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 831
1973 Mass Fire Destroyed Millions of Military Service Records; Families Still Seek Answers More Info 0 appalachiablue Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 827
On this day, July 12, 1973, the National Personnel Records Center caught on fire. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 750
On this day, July 11, 1960, "To Kill a Mockingbird" was published. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 577
On this day, July 10, 1913, the air temperature in Furnace Creek, California, reached 134 degrees F. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 866
On July 8, 1947, this was the front page of the Roswell Daily Record: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 786
On July 9, 1981, Nintendo released "Donkey Kong." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 489
On this day, July 10, 1972, the Democratic convention opened in Miami Beach. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 619
On July 9, 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled a wall of 32 Campbell Soup can paintings at an LA gallery. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 769
On July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig declared himself ""The luckiest man on the face of the earth." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 863
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass asked, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 785
On July 5, 1937, Hormel introduced Spam to a hungry world. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 696
On July 5, 1971, the 26th Amendment was formally certified by Richard Nixon. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 746
On July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe beat Jimmy Connors 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 to win Wimbledon men's singles 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 923
Rerun, per request: On This Day in History July 4, 1826: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die. 1 elleng Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 683
On July 2, 1982, "Lawnchair Larry" took to the air. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 598
On this day, July 4, three of the first five presidents died. Jefferson and Adams in 1826, and 10 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 25 2363

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On July 2, 1964, LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 548
On this day, July 3, 1952, The SS United States set sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 1155
On this day, July 2, 1881, Charles J. Guiteau shot and fatally wounded President Garfield. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 1208
July 1, 1971: Supreme Court Upholds New York Times and Washington Post on Pentagon Papers, 6-3 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 1298
On this day, July 1, 1971, the United States Postal Service began operations. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1027
On June 28, 1919, Harry Truman and Bess Wallace were married in Independence. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 585
On this day, July 1, 1963, the ZIP Code was introduced. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 549
On this day, June 26, 2003, Lawrence v. Texas, reaffirming a right to privacy, was decided. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jul 2023 2 1004
On July 1, 1916, Dwight Eisenhower and Mamie Doud were married in Denver. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 417
At around 7:30 AM, July 1, 1863, a small patrol of the 8th IL Cav led by Lieutenant Marcellus Jones 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 787
On this day, June 30, 1986, Bowers v. Hardwick was decided. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 659
On this day, June 28, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at the offices of The Capital Gazette. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 784
On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall riots began. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 6 535
On this day, June 27, 1895, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue made its first run. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 738
On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner" to a vast crowd in West Berlin 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 893
On June 20, 1973, Richard Nixon presented Leonid Brezhnev with a 1973 dark blue Lincoln Continental. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 5 1175
On this day, June 26, 1942, the DuMont Television Network began operation. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1248
On June 25, 1962, MANual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day was decided. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 453
On this day, June 25, 1978, the rainbow flag appeared in a parade for the first time. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 5 802
On this day, June 24, 2021, the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 682
On June 22, 1951, Harry Truman laid the cornerstone for a new center at the NIH. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 743
On this day, June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers were brutally murdered in Mississippi. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 5 801
On this day, June 20, 1925, Audie Murphy was born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 805
On this day, June 19, 1903, Lou Gehrig was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 850
Juneteenth celebrated in Texas, 1900: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 549
On June 12, 1776, the Virginia Convention adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 628
On this day, June 18, 1873, Susan B. Anthony was convicted for voting in the 1872 election. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 5 673
Pvt. William Loop & father, Cpl. Roderick Loop, bid farewell to each other. Anzio, March 6, 1944. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 11 972
"5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Office Here" -- Washington Post, Sunday, June 18, 1972, page A1 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 1063
On this day, June 18, 2007, the Charleston Sofa Super Store fire occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 796

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On this day, June 18, 1948, the long-playing record was unveiled. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 957
On this day, June 17, 1972, the Watergate break-in happened. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 702
On June 16, 1917, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 630
On this day, June 17, 1963, Abington School District v. Schempp was decided. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 725
On this day, June 16, 1858, Abraham Lincoln wrote, "A house divided against itself, cannot stand." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 881
On this day, June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. became the youngest person executed ... 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 764
From June 3 through June 8, 1943, the Zoot Suit Riots occurred in Los Angeles, California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 1212
On this day, June 14, 1943, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette was decided. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 1039
On this day, June 15, 1943, a race riot broke out in Beaumont, Texas. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1170
On January 15, 2009, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger ditched his Airbus 320 in the Hudson River. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 Jun 2023 3 1719
On June 14, 2017, there was a shooting during practice for a congressional baseball game. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 744
On the night of June 12, 1994, 35-year-old Nicole Brown Simpson and 25-year-old Ron Goldman ... 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1228
June 12. Today's Highlight in History: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 708
On this day, June 12, 1963, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 887
On this day, June 12, 1967, Loving v. Virginia was decided. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 5 567
On this day, June 10, 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 766
"JFK gave best speech of his life, {June 10, 1963}, at American University:" 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 6 886
On June 9 and 10, 1960, the Arlington County, Virginia, lunch counter sit-ins occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 1149
June 11, 1963, was one of the most tumultuous days in the civil rights movement. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 643
On this day, June 10, 2009, James Wenneker von Brunn opened fire inside the US Holocaust Museum. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 737
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