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 24th, 1844Inventor Samuel Morse opens America's first telegraph line. He transmits the message What Hath God Wrought from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore. 1994,In New York, four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center the year before are ea
May 10th, 1869they place them up by that without the flowers and mile a track... At Promontory, Utah --- a golden spike is driven into the ground, completing the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. 1933,Months after taking power i
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
June 3rd, 1965. Get back in. OK. We're on our way and tell everyone go back in now. Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space during the Gemini IV mission. 1989, Irans spiritual leader the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dies in
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 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
May 14th, 1607Colonists travel ashore to Virginia to begin building Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the western hemisphere. 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark leave Saint Louis on their expedition to explore the Louisiana t
May 28th 1934, a medical miracle that later turns tragic in Ontario, Canada where the Dionne quintuplets are born. Ontarios provincial government deems the girls parents to beyond fit and puts the quints in a specially-built hospital. Thats where the
March 28th, 1979America's worst commercial nuclear accident takes place at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Though the health effects are considered small, the accident strengthens opposition to the nation's nuclear power in
May 5th 1961Alan Shepard becomes America's first space traveler blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. three, two, one, zero, ignition. Shepard makes a 15-miunte suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom 7. 1821France's former
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
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 7th, 1998In Jasper, Texas, three white men chain a black man James Byrd, Junior to a pickup truck, then drag him to his death. Two of the men who dragged Byrd are later sentenced to death for the crime. The third receives life in prison. 1948,Th
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 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
June 12th, 1987In the then divided city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan makes a Cold War challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall. More than two years later, the Berlin Wall falls, as communism collapses acr
June 14th, 1940During WWII, Paris falls into Nazi hands, as German troops enter France's capital. That same day, in German occupied Poland, the Nazis open a concentration camp, at Auschwitz. 1985,Shiite Muslim militants hijack TWA Flight 847 shortly
June 13th, 1971The New York Times begins publishing The Pentagon Papers --- a leaked, top secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam. President Richard Nixon's administration tries to block further publication in court, citing national security
June 18th 1940 In London, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill tells his people to prepare for their struggle against Nazi Germany during WWII. The history of British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years. Man will still say, this
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