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Did Native Americans have stories about the die-off when Europeans arrived? 4 raccoon Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1109
On this day, April 3, 1860, the Pony Express began operation. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 801
On this day, April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Memphis and checked in to the Lorraine Motel. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 790
On this day, April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 772
On this day, April 1, 1976, Conrail was formed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 801
The Fall of Wake Island... and Donald Trump's tooth brush... 2 DemocraticPatriot Mar 2024 Apr 2024 4 1357
On this day, March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not be running for another term. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 891
On this day, March 30, 1954, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson suffered a massive heart attack 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1055
On this day, March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 968
On this day, March 29, 1945, Roosevelt went to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, for some rest. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 11 970
On March 29, 1961, police used clubs and German Shepherds to attack Black citizens outside a courthouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 832
Sergeant Stubby, most decorated American "war dog" of World War One 1 steve2470 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1217
On this day, March 28, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 928
On Friday, March 27, 2020, this was the front page of The New York Times: 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 15 1387
On this day, March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island accident happened. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 832
On this day, March 18, 1966, Studebaker finally shut down. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1096
On this day, March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1167
On this day, March 27, 1960, the last scheduled steam-powered passenger train in the United States ran. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1002
On this day, March 26, 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima ended as the island was officially secured by American forces. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 844
On March 23, 1977, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, opened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 916
On this day, March 24, 1839, the last detachment of Cherokee people arrived in Indian Territory. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 936
Doris Miller, Hero Pearl Harbor 1941, Fired AA Machine Gun from USS West Virginia, Navy Cross 8 appalachiablue Mar 2024 Mar 2024 18 1547
On this day, March 25, 1947, there was an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 coal mine. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 993
On this day, March 25, 1914, Norman Borlaug was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 774
On this day, March 23, 2005, the Texas City refinery explosion occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 831
On this day, March 23, 1923, the oldest extant high school AM radio station in the United States was licensed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 923
On this day, March 22, 1984, teachers at a preschool were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1107
On this day, March 22, 1945, Eleanor and Franklin went to Union Station to meet the visiting Governor General of Canada. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 832
On this day, March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 655
On March 20, 1949, the California Zephyr made its first run. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 859

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On this day, March 21, 1952, Alan Freed presented the Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 753
On March 11, 1943, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette was argued before the Supreme Court. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 785
On this day, March 19, 1945, a Japanese dive bomber hit the USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 993
On this day, March 19, 1958, the Monarch Underwear Company fire occured. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 732
On this day, March 18, 1990, the largest art theft in US history happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 747
On this day, March 18, 1937, the New London School explosion occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 996
Mar 3, 2015 Watch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's full speech to Congress 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 861
On this day, March 17, 1945, the "Bridge at Remagen" collapsed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 881
On this day, March 17, 1948, the Hells Angels were formed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 907
On this day, March 17, 1933, Myrlie Louise Beasley was born. In 1951, she married Medgar Evers. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 648
On this day, March 16, 1968, the My Lai massacre occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 839
On this day, March 16, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had the largest point drop in history. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 804
On this day, February 27, 1943, an explosion ripped through Smith Mine No. 3 in Montana. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 Mar 2024 2 841
On this day, March 15, 1933, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 662
On this day, March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born. On this day, March 14, 2018, Stephen Hawking died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 763
On this day, March 13, 1961, JFK proposed the Alliance for Progress in Latin America. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 600
On this day, March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam in Los Angeles failed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 642
On this day, March 12, 2008, Eliot Spitzer announced his resignation as governor of New York. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 678
On this day, March 12, 1933, Roosevelt delivered his first fireside chat. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 596
On March 9, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to Congress. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 739
On March 9, 2009, the bear market of 2007-2009 bottomed out. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 659
On the night of March 9-10, 1945, the American Army Air Force firebombed Tokyo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 806
On March 10, 1913, Harriet Tubman died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 748
On this day, March 11, 1888, the Great Blizzard of 1888 began. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 883
On this day, March 11, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 663
On this day, March 11, 1965, the Reverend James Reeb of Boston, beaten in Selma, died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 647
On this day, March 7, 1970, people flocked to the Atlantic coast of the United States to view a total solar eclipse. 12 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1612
On this day, March 8, 1945, FDR greeted officers and men of the 6th Ranger Battalion in the Oval Office. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 754
This day, March 7, 1965, turned into "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 663
On this day, March 7, 1945, scouts from the 89th Reconnaissance Squadron saw the Ludendorff Bridge still standing. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 804

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📺On this day, March 6, 1981, Walter Cronkite anchored his final broadcast of the 'CBS Evening News' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 707
On this day, March 6, 1857, the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford was handed down. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 632
On this day, March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 653
On March 4, 1853, Judah P. Benjamin became the first Jew who had not renounced his faith sworn in to the US Senate. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 776
On this day, March 5, 1770, Crispus Attucks and four others were killed in the Boston Massacre. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 671
On Monday, March 3, 1913, there was a women's suffrage parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in DC. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 702
On March 2, 1983, compact discs and CD players went on sale in the United States. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 660
First issue of Time Magazine, dated March 3, 1923, featured House Speaker Joe Cannon: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 636
On this day, March 4, 1933, Frances Perkins became Secretary of Labor. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 892
On this day, March 4, several presidents were inaugurated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 590
On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Cooper Union speech. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 691
On this day, March 1, 1910, the deadliest avalanche in United States history buried a train in Washington state. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 1128
On this day, March 1, 1933, FDR left Hyde Park, headed to Washington DC for his inauguration. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 629
On February 29, 1960, the Tampa Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in began. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2024 12 1166
On this day, February 29, 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 623
On this day, February 29, 1960, the Tampa Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 655
On February 27, 1968, Walter Cronkite called for an end to the war in Vietnam. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 699
On this day, February 28, 2010, Sidney Crosby scored in overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 647
On this day, February 27, 1869, Alice Hamilton was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 573
Ida B. Wells: Investigative Journalist, Civil Rights Leader, Passionate Suffragist 0 appalachiablue Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 612
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