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On this day, May 1, 1971, Amtrak began operation. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 1 846
On this day, April 30, 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 880
On this day, April 30, 1871, the Camp Grant massacre took place in Arizona Territory. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 959
On this day, April 30, 1975, American forces completed a helicopter evacuation of Saigon. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 842
On this day, April 30, 1939, the New York World's Fair opened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 797
On this day, April 30, 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opened in St. Louis. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 779
On this day, April 30, 1926, the number "66" was assigned to a Chicago-to-Los Angeles highway. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 842
On the night of April 30, 2011, Donald Trump attended the WH Correspondents' Association dinner. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 967
On this day, April 30, 1939, FDR made the first presidential speech ever on TV, opening the New York World's Fair. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 876
On this day, April 29, 2004, the last Oldsmobile was built. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1059
On April 29, 2020, Trump announced his intent to nominate Aileen Cannon to serve as a judge on the US District Court. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 873
On this day, April 29, 1970, U.S. troops entered Cambodia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 921
On this day, April 29, 2015, Major League Baseball set its all-time low attendance mark. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 859
Financial Frauds - Theranos $9 Billion Fraud by Elizabeth Holmes & Magic Blood Testing Machine Scam - Joe Blogs 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 976
On April 27 and April 28, 1944, 749 American servicemen were killed in Exercise Tiger, a large-scale rehearsal for D-Day 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1203
On this day, April 28, 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was on its way from Hilo to Honolulu. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1015
On this day, April 28, 1971, OSHA was formed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 731
On this day, April 27, 1978, 51 workers died in the deadliest construction accident in United States history. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1828
On this day, April 26, 1944, in Chicago, the US government took over retail giant Montgomery Ward. 8 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1366
On this day, April 26, 1937, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Herndon v. Lowry. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 900
Plattsburgh discusses raising Revolutionary War ship "Spitfire" out of Lake Champlain 2 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 978
On this day, April 25, 1945, United States and Soviet troops met in Torgau and Strehla along the Elbe River. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 807
On this day, April 25, 1946, 45 people were killed and some 125 were injured in a train wreck in Naperville, Illinois. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1090
On April 23, 1951, Barbara Johns launched a student strike for equal education in Virginia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 799
Cherries Found in 18th C. Glass Bottles under Floor of Mt. Vernon, George Washington Home 🍒 4 appalachiablue Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 1309
On April 21 through April 23, 2020, there was an outbreak of tornadoes across Texas and Oklahoma. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 851
On this day, April 23, 1945, the US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenburg concentration camp. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 963
On this day, April 23, 1940, 209 people were killed in the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 955
On this day, April 23, 1987, 28 construction workers died in the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 890
CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite talking about the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 903

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On this day, April 22, 1994, Richard Nixon died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 879
On April 20, 1914, the Ludlow Massacre occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1124
On this day, April 21, 1910, Mark Twain died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 829
It was the shot heard round the world -- and these women were there to hear it. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 1279
On this day, April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 751
On this day, April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 24 in the Columbine HS massacre. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 789
Words That Hide the Truth - George Carlin 3 Uncle Joe Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1213
On this day 1863, Robert E Lee shouted "Never fight uphill, me b'hoys!" ... So beautiful 8 Bucky Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1620
On the night of April 14, 1865, this was what Abraham Lincoln took with him to Ford's Theatre. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 12 1378
On this day, April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 876
On this day, April 19, 1993, the Waco siege ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian compound. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 939
On this day, April 19, 1989, a gun turret on board the battleship Iowa exploded, killing 47 sailors. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 942
Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1051
Why Did Columbia University Students Protest in 1968? History 0 Uncle Joe Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 873
On this day, April 18, 1923, Babe Ruth was at the first game in New York City's new Yankee Stadium. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 815
On this day, April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang was introduced to the public at the New York World's Fair. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1018
On this day, April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 963
On this day, April 17, 2013, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, killed 15 people. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 733
On this day, April 16, 1947, the SS Grandcamp, filled with ammonium nitrate, blew up in Texas City. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 946
On this day, April 16, 2007, the Virginia Tech school shootings occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 867
On this day, April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 793
Financial Frauds- Enron $74 Billion Fraud Creative Accounting Scandal Shocked the Financial World - Joe Blogs 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 881
On this day, April 15, 2013, the Boston Marathon bombing occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 710
On this day, April 15, 1923, ten Japanese-American children were killed in a racially motivated arson attack on a school 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 877
San Francisco 1906 (New Version) in Color [VFX,60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added 5 Uncle Joe Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1473
April 14, 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral procession on the streets of Washington, D.C. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1980
On this day, April 14, 1935, the Black Sunday dust storm blew through Oklahoma and Texas. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1157
On this day, April 13, 2018, Art Bell died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1120
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Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 43 2530

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On this day, April 13, 1953, Project MKUltra was started. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1079
On this date, April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 759
On this day, April 12, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 913
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 41 2294
Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2024 12 2053
On this day, April 12, 1955, it was announced that the polio vaccine Jonas Salk developed was safe. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 859
On this day, April 11, 1945, American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1034
Alexandria lecture explores harrowing story of woman who killed her children rather than have them sold into slavery 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 950
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 993
On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 916
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 1171
In the small village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant 0 elleng Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 766
On this day 1865 CSA surrenders. Civil War ends.? 1 spike jones Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1062
On this day, April 9, 2003, a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was toppled. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 934
On this day, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 838
On this day, April 4, 1859, Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New York City' 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 842
An Extremely Interesting View of Four Presidents and the Constitution. 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1081
On April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 754
On April 6, 1958, Capital Airlines Viscount N7437 crashed on final approach to Freeland MI 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 827
On this day, April 5, 1949, a fire started in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois. 77 people died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 732
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