Today in History - May 17, 2024
Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, New York Stock Exchange, French composer Erik Satie, Kentucky Derby, L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", Swedish operatic soprano Birgit Nilsson, First televised sporting event, Racial segregation unconstitutional, Megan's Law, same sex marriage
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Today in History - May 16, 2024
Samuel Johnson, Marie-Antoinette, William H. Seward, The Nickel, U.S. President Andrew Johnson, Joan of Arc, Academy Awards, Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut, South Korea-General Park Chung-Hee, The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds", Tabei Junko, "Top Gun", Nicolas Sarkozy, American Architect I.M. Pei
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Today in History - May 15, 2024
Roman God Mercury, Physical Chemist Pierre Curie, Louis Riel, Emily Dickinson, Mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, Regular airmail route, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, Nylon stockings, McDonald's, Lawyer and Judge Abe Fortas, George Wallace, Edith Cresson French Premier, June Carter Cash
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Today in History - May 14, 2024
Jamestown, Virginia founded, Louis XIV France, Robert Owen, Edward Jenner, Lewis and Clark, State of Israel, Skylab, Mark Zuckerberg, TV's "Seinfeld", Frank Sinatra, B.B. King
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Today in History - May 13, 2024
The Table Knife, US declared war on Mexico, Law of Guarantees, Virgin Mary, Winston Churchill, Richie Valens, Stevie Wonder, Dhaulagiri Summit, Stephen Colbert, Pope John Paul II, Doris Day
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Today in History - May 12, 2024
American Revolution - Major General Benjamin Lincoln, Nurse Florence Nightingale, Donner Party, Yogi Berra, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, King George VI of the UK, Soviet Union, The Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street", Earthquake struck Sichuan Province
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Today in History - May 11, 2024
Byzantium Constantinople, Conjoined twins Chang and Eng, US President James K. Polk, American Jazz cornetist King Oliver, American composer Irving Berlin, Pullman Palace Car Company, Glacier National Park, Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, WWII - US troops invade Attu, Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, Bob Marley, IBM's Deep Blue, British politician Gordon Brown
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Today in History - May 10, 2024
King Louis XVI France, American Revolution - Green Mountain Boys, American Patriot Paul Revere, American actor John Wilkes Booth, The Indian Mutiny, Jefferson Davis, Transcontinental railway, American reformer Victoria Woodhull, J. Edgar Hoover, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, WWII - Germany invaded, Irish musician Bono, Marvel Comics "The Incredible Hulk", John Wayne Gacy, Nelson Mandela, FBI agent Robert Hanssen
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Today in History - May 9, 2024
Christopher Columbus, American abolitionist John Brown, Dramatist J.M. Barrie, Mike Wallace, Italy annexed Ethiopia, American athlete Ralph Boston, Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", Birth control pill, President Richard M. Nixon, Horror film - "Friday the 13th", Little Richard
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Today in History - May 8, 2024
Hundred Years War - Joan of Arc, English historian Edward Gibbon, Mexican-American War - Battle of Palo Alto, American Civil War, Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show, Harry S. Truman, American pharmacist John S. Pemberton, Mount Pelee erupted, WWII - Battle of the Coral Sea, WWII ends, Silkeborg Denmark, The Beatles "Let it Be", Smallpox, Nancy Mace - The Citadel College, American artist Maurice Sendak
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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 - May 1, 2024
Sir Rowland Hill, The Great Exhibition of 1851, Memphis race riot, May Day, Spanish-American War - Battle of Manila Bay, American Singer Kate Smith, Iodized Salt, Empire State Building, Orson Wells's "Citizen Kane", U-2 Incident, First US hijacking, Amtrak, Rickey Henderson, British mountaineer George Mallory, European Union
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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 29, 2024
Joan of Arc, British explorer James Cook, Duke Ellington, WWI-Ottoman Turks, Orchestral conductor Zubin Mehta, Dachau concentration camp, Jerry Seinfeld, Tropical cyclone struck Bangladesh, LA Riots-Rodney King, British Royal Wedding, MLB lowest-attended game, Animated TV series "The Simpsons"
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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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