October 31st, 1517In Germany, the start of the Protestant Reformation, as the priest Martin Luther takes a stand. He posts the 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg Palace Church, questioning Catholic Church practices. 1968,President Lyndon B. Johnson
November 2nd 1948President Henry Truman confounds the political pundits in the race for the White House, Senator Barkley and I will win this election and make these Republicans like it, don't you forget that. as the incumbent Democrat narrowly defeat
November 3rd, 1986, the Iran-Contra affair begins to unfold as a Lebanese magazine breaks the story of secret U.S. arms sales to Teheran. President Ronald Reagan initially denies trading arms to secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon. In
November 4th, 1979Start of the Iranian hostage crisis as militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seize its occupants . For many of the dozens of hostages, it is the start of 444 days of captivity, a saga that grips America. 1995Hopes for Middl
November 20th, 1945Months after World War II ends in Europe, two dozen Nazi leaders go on trial before International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. 1925 Violence or lawlessness in variety make no sense whatsoever in the United StatesRober
October 17th 1973Dawn of the energy crisis, as Arab oil-producing nations say they will cut back on oil exports to Western nations and Japan. The results are totally embargo until the following year bringing severe oil shortages and rising inflationt
November 27th, 1978, in San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death at City Hall. Former City Supervisor Dan White who pulled the trigger goes on trial for murder, but hes convicted of
December 2nd, 1954Traitors are not gentleman, my good friends. They don't understand being treated like gentlemen. In Washington, the U.S. Senate takes the rare step of condemning one of its own, Joseph McCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin. McCarthy is
December 3rd, 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, perform the first human heart transplant. The patient Louis Washkansky lives 18 days with his new heart. 1984, a horrific industrial accident kills thousands of p
December 4th, 1991Freedom at last for Terry Anderson, the Associated Press correspondent, held hostage in Lebanon, Anderson is released after nearly 7 years in captivity held longer in Lebanon than any other western hostage. 1992President George H.W.
December 5th, 1933Prohibition ends in the United States after more than a dozen years, as Utah ratifies the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. That measure repeals the 18th Amendment, which had banned the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoh
December 6th, 1889Jefferson Davis, the first and only, President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, dies in New Orleans. Davis spent two years in prison after the war and was indicted for treason, but never faced trial. 1969,V
November 28th, 1520Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name. The Portuguese navigator crosses the Pacific and is killed in the Philippines in the following years. But Magella
A date which will live in infamy.. December 8th, 1941, America enters World War Ⅱ as Congress declares war on Japan, a day after its attack on Pearl Harbor. President Franklin D. Roosevelt tells lawmakers during a joint session in Washington. With
November 26th, 1950, China, under its new communist leader Mao Zedong, enters the Korean War on the side of neighbor and communist ally North Korea. Chinese troops launch a counteroffensive against the American-led force, under the UN banner and troo
November 5th, 1940, My conscience will not let me turn my back upon a call to service. Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the only American president to win an unprecedented third term in office. Roosevelt serves as president for a total of more than 12 y
November 25th, 1963Three days after he's slain in Dallas, the body of President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. 1986In Washington, new details about the Iran-Contra Affair engulf President Ronald Reagans administration
November 24th, 1963, in Dallas, a scene caught on live TV that shocks America just days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There is Lee Harvey Oswald. Hes been shot. Hes been shot! Lee Oswald has been shot! Theres a man with a gun.
September 25th, 1957As hundreds of U.S. army troops stand guard 9 black students are escorted into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. That happens two days after unruly white crowds force the children to withdraw from trying to enter the a
October 13th, 1792In the District of Columbia, the cornerstone is laid for the Executive Mansion, what we now called the White House. Its first occupants, President John Adams and wife Abigail move in when construction is nearly complete some 8 years
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