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 17, 2024
Richard I (The Lionheart), Martin Luther, Benjamin Franklin, Treaty of Shimonoseki, Mickey Mantle, Cominform - The International Communist Information Bureau, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Apollo 13, Cambodia's government collapse, The Canada Act, Anneli Joatteenmaki - P.M. of Finland, Game of Thrones, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Barbara Bush
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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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Today in History - April 9, 2024
Battle of Nafels, Rene-Robert Cavelier - sieur de la Salle, Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Mark Twain, Robert E. Lee - American Civil War, Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, America's first Astronauts, Sir. Winston Churchill, Astrodome, Trans World Airlines, Charles and Camilla
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Today in History - April 8, 2024
2024 Total Solar Eclipse, Buddha's Birthday, Transatlantic Steamer - The Great Western, German Philosopher Edmund Husserl, Figure Skater Sonja Henie, Seventeenth Amendment, Venus de Milo, British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, Delhi Pact, Pablo Picasso, Hank Aaron, "All in the Family", "Twin Peaks", Ryan White, Springtails (Collembola), Margaret Thatcher
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Today in History - April 7, 2024
Felix V, Billie Holiday, US Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall, AT&T - One-way videophone, National Beer Day - Low-Alcoholic Beer, Francis Ford Coppola, Henry Ford, World Health Organization, Jack Nicklaus, John Wayne, Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Mars Odyssey Spacecraft, Mike Wallace
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Today in History - April 6, 2024
Richard I (The Lionheart), Laura dies, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Battle of Shiloh, Japanese Emperor Meiji, Pierre baron de Coubertin, Robert Edwin Peary, US enters WWI, Tony Awards, NY Yankees Ron Blomberg - designated hitter, Swedish Europop group ABBA, 3M - Post-It Notes, Isaac Asimov, Michael Jordan, Earthquake - L'Aquila, Italy, Mickey Rooney
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Today in History - April 5, 2024
Thomas Hobbes, Pocahontas, The Mayflower, George Washington, Battle of Maipu, Booker T. Washington, War of the Pacific, Bette Davis, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kurt Cobain, Mori Yoshiro, Charlton Heston
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Today in History - April 4, 2024
Bettina von Arnim, US President William Henry Harrison, Los Angeles, California, American Civil War - Peninsular Campaign, Muddy Waters, Maya Angelou, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Peace Symbol, Mali Federation, Biblical Epic "Ben-Hur", Denton Cooley - Artificial Heart implant, World Trade Center, Microsoft, South Korea - foot and mouth disease, Angolan government and UNITA agreement, Roger Ebert, US President Donald Trump
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Today in History - April 3, 2024
Pony Express Mail Delivery System, Sofia, Bulgaria, Jessie James, Joseph Stalin, Doris Day, Marlon Brando, Helmut Kohl, Homma Masaharu, The Marshall Plan, Eddie Murphy, Martin Luther King Jr. - Mountaintop Speech, Handheld mobile telephone call, Ted Kaczynski, Panama Papers
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Today in History - April 2, 2024
Juan Ponce de Leon, King Charles II of England, Richmond, Virginia - Capital Confederate States of America, Max Ernst, Alec Guinness, US President Woodrow Wilson, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", TV Show "Dallas", Falkland Islands War, John Gotti, Pope John Paul II, Manoel de Oliveira
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Today in History - April 1, 2024
April Fool Day, All Fools Day, France moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar changing the New Year from April 1st to January 1st, William Harvey, Otto von Bismarck, Scott Joplin, Royal Air Force, Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf, Josef von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel", Japanese Island of Okinawa, U.S. Air Force Academy, Apple Computer Inc., Iranian Revolution, Marvin Gaye, Canadian Territory of Nunavut, US spy plane midair collision, Netherlands - same sex marriage, Google - Gmail, Steven Bochco
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Today in History - March 31, 2024
Roman Catholic Mass, Rene Descartes, Joseph Haydn, Treaty of Kanagawa, Fifteenth Amendment, Eiffel Tower, Daylight Savings Time, Gordie Howe, Al Gore, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jesse Owens, U.S. Battleship-USS Missouri, American Director Jules Dassin
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Today in History - March 30, 2024
Palermo Massacre, Robert Bunsen, Vincent Van Gogh, Crimean War-Treaty of Paris, US Patent for Pencil, Alaska Purchase, Treaty of Fes, Sonny Boy Williamson, Eric Clapton, Celine Dion, Ronald Reagan Assassination Attempt, Elizabeth-The Queen Mother, Smoking Banned in NYC
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Today in History - March 29, 2024
War of the Roses, John Tyler-10th U.S. President, Wilhelm Olbers, Dominion of Canada - British North America Act, Cy Young, Man O' War, Sam Walton-Walmart, John Majors, Rodgers and Hammerstein - "The King and I", Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Keeling Curve-Climate Change, Twenty-Third Amendment, Vietnam War Ends, Terra-Cotta Army - Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Wayne Gretzky, Agnes Varda
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Today in History - March 28, 2024
Painter Fra Bartolommeo, Crimean War, American Bandleader Paul Whiteman, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Constantinople renamed Istanbul, Nazi Documentary "Triumph of the Will", Mario Vargas Llosa, Francisco Franco, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Three Mile Island, Marc Chagall, Sir Peter Ustinov, Duke Lacrosse Team
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Today in History - March 27, 2024
Cleopatra, Charles of Blois, Charles I, Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Mary Mallon - Typhoid Mary, Mstislav Rostropovich, Nikita Khrushchev, Quinton Tarantino, Alaska 9.2 Magnitude Earthquake, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Pan Am 747 and KLM 747 Collide, Pfizer's Viagra, Milton Berle, North Macedonia
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Today in History - March 26, 2024
Gerrymander, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Frost, Reil Rebellion, Tennessee Williams, Millie Miglia, Sandra Day O'Connor, Richard Dawkins, Dianna Ross, Bangladesh, Camp David Accords, Mike Tyson, Heaven's Gate Cult, Vladimir Putin, "Doctor Who", Geraldine Ferraro
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Today in History - March 25, 2024
Venice Italy, Arena Chapel, Robert the Bruce, Christiaan Huygens, British Parliament, Bela Bartok, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Claude Debussy, Gloria Steinem, Sir Elton John, Treaties of Rome, March from Selma to Montgomery, Sarah Jessica Parker, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Hindu Kush Earthquake, Beverly Cleary
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