June 23rd, 1972In Washington, a key moment for President Richard Nixon and his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman during the Watergate scandal. He discusses using the CIA to block the FBI's probe of the break-in of Democratic National Committee headquarte

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June 8th, 632The Prophet Muhammad who founded the religion of Islam dies in Medina, part of what's now Saudi Arabia. Muhammad leaves no arrangement for a successor, creating a rift within Islam which lasts to this day. 1968Authorities announce a capt

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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

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April 21st, 1910 - Writer and humorist Mark Twain dies of heart disease, in Redding, Connecticut, at age 74. Among his works, Huckberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and The Prince And The Pauper. 1926 - We cant make sense of the future, if we understand the less

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April 23rd, 1564 - To be or not to be: that is the question. William Shakespeare is believed to have been born on this day in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The poet and dramatist known as The Bard one of the Greats in world literature dies on the sam

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March 31st ,1968 - With America divided over the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson makes a surprise election year announcement. I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.1889 - In Paris,

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January 22nd, 1973In one of its most controversial rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court legalizes abortion in a landmark case of Roe versus Wade. Also that same year, Far in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only towards the rich society and

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January 21st, 1793In Pairs, the French Revolution turns bloody as King Louis the 16th condemned for treason is executed on the guillotine. 1924Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who found the Soviet Union, the worlds first Communist Party dies

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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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July 2nd, 1776In Philadelphia, the vote that sets the stage for America's Declaration of Independence two days later. The Continental Congress passes a resolution saying Britain's 13 colonies are and should be free and independent states. 1964In Wash

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June 20th, 1893A jury finds Lizzie Borden innocent of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. The grisly killings and Borden's trial receive massive media attention for its time in the United States

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May 13th,1981Somebody said, its the Pope, hes shot,you know we just shocked, it was just unbelievable.At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded by a Turkish gunman in St. Peter's Square. The-pontiff recovers and a few years late

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April 21st, 1910Writer and humorist Mark Twain dies of heart disease in Redding Connecticut at age 74, among his works, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and The Prince and the Pauper. 1926: We can make sense of the future if we understand the lessons of

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April 30th 1945Nazi Germany's dictator Aldof Hitler commits suicide during the last days of the World War II in Europe. Hitler and Eva Braun ,his long-time mistress and wife of one day, take their own lives as Soviet troops approaches bunker in Berli

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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

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March 11th, 2004. Bombs strike a commuter rail network in Spain's capital, Madrid. The attack linked to the al-Qaeda terror network kills 191 people and wounds more than 2,000 others. 2006Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is found dead in

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February 26th, 1993In New York, a bomb built by Islamic extremists explodes in the parking garage of the World Trade Center. The blast kills six people and injures more than a thousand others. More than eight years later, the Twin Towers fall in the

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February 19th, 1945In the final months of World War II, some thirty thousand US marines begin landing in Iwo Jima, that's where they fight months-long battle to seize the rest of the Pacific island from Japanese forces. 1942Also during World War II,

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February 17th, 1992In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer receives his series of life sentences for his grisly string of murders. Dahmer had admitted to killing 17 young men and boys, some of whom he had mutilated and cannibalized. Just a few yea

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January 21st, 1793. In Paris, the French Revolution turns bloody as King Louis XVI condemned for treason is executed on the guillotine. 1924. Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who founded the Soviet Union, the worlds first Communist state, di

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