August 16th, 1977 you are always on my mind. The last chapter for the King of Rock 'n Roll in Memphis, Tennessee. That's where singer Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland Mansion, at age 42. Heart disease and years of prescription drug abuse are the c
August 28th, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. caps a major civil rights march in Washington with a speech for the ages at the Lincoln Memorial. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th
August 23rd, 1939In Moscow, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact. The treaty divides Eastern Europe into spheres of Nazi and Soviet influence, just days before the Nazis invade Poland, the start of WWII. 1927,In Boston, Ital
July 22nd, 1933. Aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world in 7 days 18 and 3/4 hours. 1934. Federal agents shoot to death a man identified as John Dillinger outside a movie theater in Chicago. Dillinger has been declared Pu
September 1st, 1939, start of World War II as Nazi Germanys dictator Adolf Hitler, invades neighboring Poland. The war last for the next 6 years, spanning from Europe and North Africa to Asia and Pacific . 2004, a hostage crisis unfolds. in Southern
August 30th, 1862During the American Civil War, the Second Battle of Bull Run ends in B, Virginia. Union forces are defeated by the Confederates on the site of the war's first major clash the previous year. 1967In Washington, the Senate confirms K as
September 2, 1945World War II officially ends, 6 years in the day after the fighting began. That`s when Japan formally surrenders to the Allies on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. President Harry Truman tells Americans: The evil done by the Japan
September 3rd, 1939, 2 days after Adolf Hitlers forces invade Poland, Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany. British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, whose policy of appeasing Hitler was meant to prevent what becomes World War II. Yet I
September 4th, 1957In little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of America`s schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus orders State`s National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school
August 21st, 1991In Moscow, a coup by hard-line Communists against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapses, leading the popular uprising against the coup plotter Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation. Gorbachev returns to power. But th
October 7th, 2001, just weeks after the September 11th terror-attacks, the United States and Britain launch military strikes on Afghanistan. On a video tape, Osama Bin Laden prays God for the 9.11 attacks, but the Al-Qaeda leader does not claim respo
December 18th, 1944The U.S. Supreme Court rules on the forced relocation and detention of Japanese Americans during World War II. While the High Court opposes the relocation, it adds the Americans of Japanese ancestry who are undeniably loyal can no
November 10th, 1975, Superior, they said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early! The ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald sinks and its crew of 29 perishes during a severe storm on Lake Superior. 1982, Leonid Brezhnev, the Sovie
November 1st, 1765The Stamp Act takes effect, as Britain imposes a tax on its American colonists. They respond with stiff resistance and Britain later repeals the Act. But the episode sets the stage for the American Revolution a decade later. 1952,Th
October 18th, 1931Mary had a little lamp, its fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamp was sure to go. Inventor Thomas Edison dies in West Orange, New Jersey at age 84. Among his many inventions --- the electric light bulb, t
December 9th, 1992Britains Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce their separating. It happens more than a decade after their widely watched wedding that seemed like something out of a fairy tale . Divorce becomes final for the royal couple nearl
September 27th, 1964 The Warren Commission wraps up its investigation into the assassination of President John F.Kennedy. Its report concludes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy and wounding Texas governor John Connally the previous yea
November 21st, 1877 Thomas Edison announces the invention of the phonograph, after testing the device by reciting a nursery rhyme. Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go1973,Pres
November 7th, 1917The Bolshevik Revolution takes place in Russia. Forces led by Vladimir Lenin overthrow the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. What eventually emerges, the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. 2000,Americans vo
October 30th, 1938A fictional invasion by Martians on the radio spooks Americans on Halloween Eve. As the live dramathe War of the Worlds starring Orson Welles airs on CBS, the play's fake news reports panic some listeners who think the Martian invas
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