Today in History - May 7, 2024
Theatre Royal England, Scottish philosopher David Hume, Rabindranath Tagore, American criminal H.H. Holmes, Japanese director Honda Ishiro, WWI - Japan and China, WWI - Lusitania, WWI - Treaty of Bucharest, Argentine political figure Eva Peron, WWII - German General Alfred Jodl, Sony Corporation, First Indochina War - Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Twenty-seventh Amendment, Seattle Slew - US Triple Crown
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Today in History - May 6, 2024
Sioux Indian Crazy Horse, Chinese Exclusion Act, Babe Ruth, Orson Welles, Willie Mays, Hindenburg disaster, WWII - Corregidor Island, Tony Blair, Roger Bannister-4 minute mile, "I Love Lucy", George Clooney, Marlene Dietrich, Apple iMac personal computer, Space X - Elon Musk, TV Show "Friends", British coronation - King Charles III
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Today in History - May 5, 2024
King Charles I of England, French Revolution, Mary Kries-US Patent, Danish religious philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, Cinco de Mayo, American Civil War-Battle of the Wilderness, Cy Young, Virginia Wolf - "To the Lighthouse", WWII-Battle of Castle Itter, WWII-Civilian deaths on US soil, U2 spy plane, Alan Shepard Jr., American race horse Secretariat, Bobby Sands-IRA, Adele, Cliff Notes - Clifton Keith Hillegass
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Today in History - May 4, 2024
Francois Gerard, Napoleon exiled, American Civil War-Battle of Chancellorsville, Haymarket riot in Chicago, May Fourth Movement, WWII-Battle of the Coral Sea, Grammy Awards, Freedom ride, Students shot at Kent State University, Prime Minister of Spain-Jose Maria Aznar, British politician Ken Livingstone
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Today in History - May 3, 2024
Christopher Columbus, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Golda Meir-Prime Minister of Israel, Bing Crosby, Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind", Kentucky Derby, Spam Email, Margaret Thatcher, Land mines, Wildfire at Fort McMurray Canada
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Today in History - May 2, 2024
Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII-2nd wife Anne Boleyn, King James Bible, Louisiana Territory, Treaty of Wichale, The Red Barron - Manfred baron von Richthofen, American pediatrician Benjamin Spock, The Negro National League (NNL), Bengali director Satyajit Ray, Peasants of Luzon, Philippines, Lou Gehrig "Iron Horse", Battle of Alcatraz, Tony Blair, GPS, Osama bin Laden, Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge
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Today in History - April 30, 2024
President George Washington, J.J. Thomson, Casey Jones, Hawaiian Organic Act, Aviator Bessie Coleman, Willie Nelson, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Adolf Hitler, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Italian Director Sergio Leone, Willem-Alexander Netherlands
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Today in History - April 28, 2024
King Edward IV of England, James Monroe - Monroe Doctrine, Mutiny on the Bounty, Lionel Barrymore, Billy the Kid, Harper Lee, Benito Mussolini, Thor Heyerdahl, Allied occupation of Japan, Muhammad Ali, Charles de Gaulle, Martin Bryant, American businessman Dennis Tito, Apple iTunes, Abu Ghraib
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Today in History - April 27, 2024
King Edward I of England, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, Mary Wollstonecraft, Morse Code, Ulysses S. Grant, London Zoo, Steamship SS Sultana, West African country of Togo, Independence for Sierra Leone, Personal computer mouse, British politician Betty Boothroyd, Russian Mstislav Rostropovich, Pope John Paul II
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Today in History - April 26, 2024
Pazzi family of Florence, Cape Henry/Chesapeake Bay, English Royal Academy of Arts, Sybil Ludington, John James Audubon, John Wilkes Booth, Hermann Goring, Pablo Picasso's painting "Guernica", Kurosawa Akira's "Seven Samurai", United Republic of Tanzania, Lucille Ball, Chernobyl nuclear accident, Jack Valenti, Bill Cosby
Today in History - April 25, 2024
Petersburg Virginia, Guillotine, Treaty of Amritsar, Suez Canal, Guglielmo Marconi, License Plates - New York, Edward R. Murrow, Dardanelles Campaign, Giacomo Puccini, St. Lawrence Seaway, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Hubble Telescope, Ginger Rogers, Flint Michigan water supply, 7.8 magnitude earthquake Nepal, John Havlicek
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Today in History - April 24, 2024
Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, The Library of Congress, Russia vs. Ottoman Empire, Spain declared War on US, Willem de Kooning, Robert Penn Warren, Easter Rising, President Chiang Kai-shek, Soviet Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, American hostage rescue, North Korea, Estee Lauder, Pope Benedict XVI
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Today in History - April 23, 2024
King Edmund II of England, Boston Latin School, James Buchanan, German Physicist Max Planck, Russian Tsar Nicholas II, Weeghman Park - Wrigley Field, "The Public Enemy" - James Cagney, Roy Orbison, The Ramones, AIDS-HIV, New Coke/Coke Classic, Eritrea's Independence, James Earl Ray, YouTube, Boris Yeltsin
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Today in History - April 22, 2024
Gregory VII, Bastille French, Portuguese Explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral, Immanuel Kant, Coinage Act, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Oklahoma Territory, Robert Oppenheimer, WWI - Second Battle of Ypres, Jack Nicholson, Earth Day, Fake Hitler Diaries, Richard M. Nixon, Pat Tillman, Paris Climate Agreement
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Today in History - April 21, 2024
Henry VIII - Great Britain, Mughal Dynasty India, Friedrich Froebel, 1st Vice President of the US - John Adams, Jean-Baptiste Kleber, James Starley, Sam Houston - Battle of San Jacinto, John Muir, Manfred Freiherr (baron) von Richthofen (Red Baron), Loch Ness Monster, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sclassie I, Broadway Musical "Annie", Geraldo Rivera, Russian born artist and fashion designer Erte, French President Jacques Chirac, American musician Prince
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Today in History - April 20, 2024
Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon III, Odilon Redon, Japan's postal service, Adolf Hitler, Navin Field (Tiger Stadium)-Fenway Park, Striking miners Ludlow Colorado, Vilnius Lithuanian, US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Ottoman Empire-Turkey, Jessica Lange, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Columbine High School, Danica Patrick, Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig, Derek Chauvin - George Floyd
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Today in History - April 19, 2024
David Ricardo, American Revolution - Battles of Lexington and Concord, Mae West, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, South Korea - Syngman Rhee, Earth Satellite - Aryabhata, Branch Davidian religious group, Oklahoma City Bombing - Alfred P. Murray Federal Building, Pope Benedict XVI, King Mswati III
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Today in History - April 18, 2024
St. Peter's Basilica, Paul Revere's midnight ride, Clarence Darrow, San Francisco Earthquake, Doolittle Raid, Ernie Pyle, Grace Kelly-Rainer III, Zimbabwe, Wayne Gretzky, Dick Clark
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Today in History - April 16, 2024
Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Charles Edward Stuart, Painter Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Pastry War in Mexico, Natural Bridges National Monument, American aviator Harriet Quimby, Vladimir Lenin, Kingsley Amis, Albert Hofmann, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Organisation for European Economic Co-Operation, Walter Cronkite, Michael Jordan, Virginia Tech University, South Korean Ferry Sewol
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Today in History - April 15, 2024
Titanic, Sacco-Vanzetti Case, Rand McNally Auto Chum, Robertson Aircraft-Charles Lindbergh, Jackie Robinson, Ray Kroc, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield England, Giant Sequoia National Monument, Iraq falls, Boston Marathon, Notre-Dame de Paris
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Today in History - April 14, 2024
Roman Emperor Septimius, Edward IV, Noah Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Anne Sullivan Macy, J.C. Penney, John Gielgud, American Architect Louis Sullivan, John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath", Pete Rose, Ralph Ellison, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Human Genome Project, Bartholomew I, Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, Boko Haram, Bernie Madoff
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Today in History - April 13, 2024
King Henry IV of France, Charles I of Great Britain, George Frideric Handel's "Messiah", Metropolitain Museum of Art, Alfred Dreyfus, Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, Japan and Russia, Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Russian Chess Master Garry Kasparov, Sidney Poitier, Tiger Woods, Venezuelan Coup, Gunter Grass
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Today in History - April 12, 2024
Alexius V, The Union Flag - Great Britain, Henry Clay, American Civil War - Fort Sumter, Typewriter Patent, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, David Letterman, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Boxer Joe Louis, Space Shuttle Columbia, Harold Washington, Sugar Ray Robinson, Valparaiso Chile
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Today in History - April 11, 2024
Napolean, Eruption of Mount Tambora, Ferdinand I-March Laws-Hungary, Dean Acheson, Jose Julian Marti, General Douglas MacArthur, Andrew John Wiles, Adolf Eichmann, Apollo 13, Ugandan President Idi Amin, Kurt Vonnegut, Maria Tallchief
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Today in History - April 10, 2024
Hugo Grotius, Bananas in London, Walter Hunt - Safety-pin patent, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), Arbor Day, RMS Titanic, Emiliano Zapata, French Premier Edouard Herriot, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", Egyptian actor Omar Sharif, "12 Angry Men", Paul McCartney - The Beatles, Biological Weapons Convention, Pakistan - 3rd Constitution, Halley's Comet, Seto Great Bridge, Good Friday Agreement, Netherlands - Euthanasia, Black Hole Image
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