And they died in Birmingham. September 15th, 1963In Birmingham Alabama, a tragedy that galvanizes Americas Civil Rights Movement. Four black girls are killed when a bomb explodes during Sunday services at the 16th street Baptist Church. Three Ku Klux
September 14th, 2001Americans mark a day of remembrance for the victims of the September 11th attacks. In New York, President George W. Bush tours the ruins of the World Trade Center. He tells rescue workers at Ground Zero just days after the attacks
September 13th, 1993In Washington, a step in the quest for peace in the Mideast. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands at the White House. That happens after they sign an accord in which Israel grants limited
August 6th, 1945For the first time a nuclear weapon is used in warfare. The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. The blast and its aftermath kill an estimated 140,000 people. President Harry Truman: We have used
August 27th, 1883One of the worlds most devastating explosions as the island volcano Krakatoa erupts in the South Pacific. The resulting tidal waves in Indonesia Sunda Strait kill some 36,000 people on the islands of Java and Sumatra. 1908In your lif
September 12th, 2001It's the day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that killed thousands of Americans. In New York, stunned rescue workers search for bodies in the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center. And in Washington, Pres
September 10th, 1989A sign of communism facing its collapse in Eastern Europe, Hungary allows about 7,000 refugees from communist East Germany to leave for non-communist West Germany. The move effectively bypasses the Berlin Wall, an iconic symbol of
August 14th, 1945 This is a victory of more than arms alone; this is a victory of liberty over tyranny. In Washington, President Harry Truman announces Japans unconditional surrender, ending World War II. Weeks later, a surrender ceremony on the USS
September 16th, 1974President Gerald Ford announces a conditional amnesty program for deserters and draft evaders during the Vietnam War. I do not want to delay another day in resolving the dilemmas of the past, so that we may all get going on the pr
September 19th, 1777In upstate New York, a turning point during the American Revolution. The Continental Army defeats the British in the first of two Battles of Saratoga. American victories in both battles convince the French to aid the Revolutionary
August 13th, 1961The Cold War division of Berlin deepens, leading to an iconic symbol of the conflict. East Germany seals the border between the citys west and east to halt the flight of refugees. Days later, construction begins on the Berlin Wall, m
September 17th, 1862What's considered the single bloodiest day in American history takes place during the Civil War. Thats when Union forces repel a confederate invasion of Maryland in the battle of Antietam. More than 20,000 soldiers on both sides a
August 21st, 1991In Moscow, a coup by hard-line Communists against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapses, leading the popular uprising against the coup plotters Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation. Gorbachev returns to power. But t
September 20th, 1519Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. The Portuguese explorer is killed in the Philippines, but one of his ships eventually becomes the first to circle the
September 3rd, 1939Two days after Adolf Hitler's 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 c
There was a loud crashing sound, and then there was a pause for about a split seconds and then there got screamer too, and then everyone just ran everybody , everybody. There was mass chaos.It gets smoke, the black smoke and fire. There are indicatio
August 31, 1997A tragedy that sparks mass public grief around the world. Britains Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in Paris. She was 36 years old. Also killed in the crash, Dodi Al Fayed, Dianas boyfriend and the cars driver Henri Paul, bodygu
We did get something a gift after the election September 23rd, 1952Future President Richard Nixon uses whats then the new medium of television to make his case. Nixon at the time the Republican candidate for vice president denies charges that use a s
September 4th, 1957In Little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of Americas schools. Arkansas governor Orval Faubus orders states National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school.
And I think in the final analysis, it depends upon what we do here. September 26th, 1960Millions of Americans tune in to watch presidential candidates debateon television for the first time. Squaring off in Chicago, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kenn
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