May 23rd, 1945In Germany, top Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide in Allied custody, weeks after the Third Reich's fall in World War Two. As head of Nazi police forces, Himmler oversaw the killing of millions of Jews in the Holocaust and c
May 15th, 1972. Alabama governor George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Maryland. The shooting leaves Wallace paralyzed for the rest of his life. In later year, he apologizes for his on
May 16th, 1868In Washington, the U.S. Senate fails by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson on the first article of impeachment against him. Johnson is eventually acquitted on all charges, prompted by his clashes with the post Civil War Congre
May 18th, 1980Its erupting like it never has before, Im not sure, 'cause from where Im standing I cant see the top of the mountain. But I see the whole eruption coming from it. Its big. In Washington State, Mount St. Helens explodes, blasting away th
May 19th 1962Actress Marilyn Monroe performs a sultry rendition of Happy Birthday for President John F. Kennedy. It happens during a Democratic Party fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden where Kennedy is guest of honor. 1925To resort to an
May 20th, 1927. Aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off from New Yorks Long Island aboard the Spirit of St. Louis. Some 33 hours later, Lindbergh lands in Paris, becoming the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932. Aviator Ameli
May 21st1927, He made it, Charles A. Lindbergh, lucky Lindy they call him. Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh completes the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.He lands near Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. Some 33 hours after taking off
May 22nd, 1939, in Europe Nazi Germany and fascist Italy signs the Pact of Steel forming the military alliance just month before the start of WWII. 1972, Richard Nixon begins the first visit by an American President to whats then the Soviet Union. He
May 26th 1940During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops begin their evacuation from Dunkirk, France. They escape Nazi Germany's advancing forces, making their way across the English Channel to Britain. 1868In Washington, President An
May 29th 1953, Clemens Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay become the first to reach the top of the Mount Everest in Asias Himalayas. Years later, Hillary says he would not have made to the summit of the worlds highest peak without his partner. Teamwor
May 30th, 2002In New York, the end of the agonizing clean up at Ground Zero, eight and a half months after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Retired firefighter Tom Steffens says he can hardly believe what he sees where the Twin Towers of the Wor
June 2nd, 1997In Denver, a federal jury convicts Timothy McVeigh of murder and conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing. Masha Kite is the mother of one of the 168 people killed in the blast at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The emotions have been
April 18th, 1906A devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco, flattening buildings and setting off raging fires. Estimates of the final death toll range between three-thousand and six-thousand in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit an Am
June 4th, 1989In Beijing, Chinese Army troops storm Tiananmen Square to clash a pro-democracy movement. Hundreds, possibly thousands are killed in the crackdown, damaging communist China's reputation in the West. 1942A turning point during World War
June 5th, 1968So, my thanks to all of you, and now its on to Chicago, and lets win there. In Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot, after claiming victory in California's Democratic Presidential Primary. Reporter Andrew West is there
February 4th, 1945In the final month of World War II in Europe, the top Allied leaders meet at Yalta in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. President Franklin Roosevelt, Britains Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin discuss plans for
January 21st, 1793. In Paris, the French Revolution turns bloody as King Louis XVI condemned for treason is executed on the guillotine. 1924. Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who founded the Soviet Union, the worlds first Communist state, di
January 22nd, 1973. In one of its most controversial rulings, the US Supreme Court legalizes abortion in a landmark case of Roe versus Wade. Also that same year. For in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society, and
January 24th 1848. Northern California James Marshall finds a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill, a discovery that sparks the Gold Rush the following year. 1965. In London, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who led his nation through the dar
January 27th, 1945. In the final months of WWII, Soviet troops liberate Nazi Germanys concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland, thats where up to a million and a half people, 90% of them Jews, perished, as part of the Nazis final solut
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