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

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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 paralysed for the rest of his life. In later years, he apologizes for his o

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April 6th 1917 - The United States enters World War I, on the side of the Allies as Congress declares war on Germany. 1909 - Explorers Robert Peary and Matthew A. Henson lead the first successful expedition to reach the North Pole. 1896 - The first m

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April 3rd, 1968 - In Memphis, Tennessee, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. gives this speech on the night before his assassination: We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now. Because I have been to the mou

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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

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April 5th, 1986A bombing at a disco in whats then West Berlin kills an American soldier and a Turkish woman. The US retaliates more than a week later with an air raid on Libya, narrowly missing its leader Muammar Kaddafi. 1964Old soldiers never die.

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March 17th 461 A.D. Saint Patrick, Ireland's patron saints for whom St. Patrick's Day is named dies in the Irish village of Saul. Other authorities say Patrick's death happened on this day but more than 3 decades later in 493 A.D. 2003President Georg

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Hello, everyone. Today is April 13th. And on this day in 1743,Thomas Jefferson, future president and drafter of Declaration of Independence, was born. The top political theorist in early America, Jefferson played an enormous role in shaping early Ame

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April 3rd, 1968In Memphis, Tennessee, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. gives this speech on the night before his assassination: We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now. Because I have been to the mounta

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July 17th 1996It was like a big white flash and then all of a sudden it turned into a big orange fireball, broke off into 2 pieces.TWA Flight 800 explodes and crashes off New York's Long Island minutes after taking off from John F. Kennedy Internatio

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May 31st, 1889The Johnstown flood swept people on the ground; the Johnstown flood washed away the townIn one of America's worst natural disasters, water sweeps through Johnstown, Pennsylvania after a dam breaks. The flood kills more than 22 hundred p

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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

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April 3rd, 1968In Memphis, Tennessee, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. gives this speech on the night before his assassination: We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now. Because I have been to the mounta

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March 17th 461 A.D. Saint Patrick, Ireland's patron saints for whom St. Patrick's Day is named dies in the Irish village of Saul. Other authorities say Patrick's death happened on this day but more than three decades later in 493 A.D. 2003President G

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