July 13th, 1985. Here're hours to go in this Live Aid show in Philadelphia, and it looks if no one is leaving early. Live Aid, a global rock concert to raise money for starving people in Africa, takes place in London and Philadelphia. The mammoth eve
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July 12th, 100 B.C. Julius Caesar, the Ancient Roman dictator and military conqueror who was assassinated on the Ides of March, is born. 1984,Walter Mondale picks the first woman to run on a major party ticket for the White House. The Democratic pres
December 30th, 2006Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is executed, for the slaying of the Iraqi Shiites during his regime. 1903In Chicago,a blaze even deadlier than the so-called Great Fire of more than 20 years earlier. About 600 people are killed
December 23rd 1823 Twas the night before Chirstmas,when all through the house .Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.Clement C. Moores Christmas poem A Visit from St. Nicholas is first published in the upstate New York Troy Sentinel newspaper
September 27th, 1964The Warren Commission wraps up its investigation into the assassination of President John F.Kennedy. Its report concludes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy and wounding Texas governor John Connally the previous year
December 25th .1776 A surprise attack during the Revolutionary War braves new life into the American cause. General George Washington and his Continental Army troops cross the Delaware River and strike Hessian Forces at Trenton, New Jersey. 1991 The
December 29th ,1916 Noblemen in Russia murder Gregory Rasputin,a monk with powerful influence over the country's royal family.But Rasputin proves hard to kill.First he's poisoned ,then shot twice before he finally dies from drowning after been thrown
December 28th, 1856We stand in the presence of an awakened nation. Plainly it is a new age. President Woodrow Wilson who led the United States during World War I is born in Virginia. Wilson tried yet failed after the war to persuade the U.S. to join
December 31st, 1879Inventor Thomas Edison gives the first public demonstration of his electric incandescent light bulb at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. 1961The United States winds down the Marshall Plan after distributing more than 12 bil
December 26th, 2004, A tsunami kills more than 200, 000 people, most of them in southern Asia and leaves tens of thousands more missing. Among the countries, hardest hit by deadly waves Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. The tsunami was trigge
July 21st 1861During the American Civil War, Union and Confederate forces fight the first Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia. The war's first major battle ends in a Confederate victory. So does a Second Battle at Bull Run the following year. 19
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