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April 4th, 1968The Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior is assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was 39 years old. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight,
April 6th, 1917. Over there, over there, / Send the word, send the word over there The United States enters WWI on the side of the Allies as Congress declares war on Germany. 1909. Explorers Robert Peary and Matthew Henson lead the first successful e
April 5th, 1986A bombing at a disco in what's then West Berlin kills an American soldier and a Turkish woman. The US retaliates more a week later with an air-raid on Libya narrowly missing its leader Moammar Gadhafi. 1964, Old soldiers never die, the
April 20th, 1889. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany who ruled for more than a dozen years is born in Austria. Hitlers Third Reigh brought WWII and the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews in Europe. 1999. They didnt care who they shot at, they w
May 8th, 1945, VE day as the Allies celebrate the end of World War II in Europe with Nazi Germanys defeat. In Washington, President Truman reminds Americans that the war in the pacific is not over yet. Our victory is but half-won. The West is free, b
May 9th, 1960Make way for The Pill. The Food and Drug Administration approves the oral contraceptive Enovid as safe for birth control use. The pill is the first of its kind to be available by prescription in the United States, unleashing a social rev
April 19th, 1995 From my office, the door right normally enter and there's nothing in there any more.It's just, it's from. these individuals thebuilding's gone. In Oklahoma City, a truck-bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building. The blast
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 one-time segregati
May 11th, 1973. Charges are dropped against Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War. A judge cites government misconduct by officials in President Richard Nixons White House, illegal wiretaps on Ellsbergs phone and a br
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 25th, 1961. President John F. Kennedy challenges the United States to aim high in its Cold War Space Race with the Soviet Union. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on t
May 27th, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California. For the bridges first day, only pedestrians were allowed onto the span. Louis Riogiado helped build the famous suspensi
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 6th, 1937. In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the German dirigible Hindenberg burns into flames and crashes upon arriving for landing. Reporter Herbert Morrison is there. Its a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. The smoke and the flame now, and the fla
May 20th, 1927. Lucky Lindy! Up in the sky Fair or windy, he's flying high 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
April 15th, 1912, just hours after hitting an iceberg, the Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland. About 1,500 people on board the British luxury liner perish in the waters of the icy North Atlantic. 1865, President Abraham Lincoln dies in Washi
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 2nd, 1945The end is near for WWII in Europe. The Soviet Union announces the fall of Nazi Germany's capital, Berlin. And the Allies announce the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria. 1519,Leonardo Da Vinci, the Italian Renaissanc
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