Today in History - June 1, 2024
French Revolutionary War-Battle of the First of June, Aviation engineer Frank Whittle, Marilyn Monroe, Sukarno-Pancasila, Charles de Gaulle, Helen Keller, Cable News Network-Ted Turner, Light Pollution-Czeck Republic, General Motors, Conan O'Brien
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Today in History - May 31, 2024
Copyright Law, Walt Whitman, Worst natural disaster in America, Boer War-Peace of Vereeniging, Louis Botha, WWI-Battle of Jutland, The Tulsa race riots massacre, Joe Namath, Adolf Eichmann, The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, FBI official Mark Felt, Titanic-Millvina Dean
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Today in History - May 30, 2024
Peasant's Revolt, Joan of Arc, Andrew Jackson, Treaties of Paris, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Benny Goodman, Indianapolis 500, The Lincoln Memorial, May Thirtieth Incident, British Royal Air Force, Rafael Trujillo, Charles Taylor
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Today in History - May 29, 2024
Ottomans, Battle of Samugarh, Patrick Henry, Wisconsin, Composer and virtuoso pianist Isaac Albeniz, Russo-Japanese War-Battle of Tsushima, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas", Mount Everest summited, Space Shuttle Discovery, Manuel Noriega
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Today in History - May 28, 2024
Crusader rule ends, George I-Hanoverian King of Great Britain, The Federalist Papers, Napoleon, Indian Removal Act, American athlete Jim Thorpe, The Dionne Quintuplets, Volkswagen, Neville Chamberlain, Amnesty International, Pakistan, Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper", American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou
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Today in History - May 27, 2024
Treaty of Copenhagen, Founding of St. Petersburg, American author and lecturer Julia Ward Howe, Pennzoil Company, American biologist Rachel Carson, Hubert Humphrey, American short-story writer and novelist John Cheever (year 1912 not 2012), Walt Disney's "The Three Little Pigs", WWII-German Battleship Bismarck, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, British punk band The Sex Pistols, Uffizi Gallery, Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Canadian ice hockey player Maurice "Rocket" Richard, American writer Larry Kramer
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Today in History - May 26, 2024
Martin Luther, Samuel Pepys, U.S. President Andrew Johnson, The Challenger Expedition, American photographer Dorothea Lange, Irish writer Bram Stoker, John Wayne, Actors' Equity Association, Jazz musician Miles Davis, Ford Motor Company Model T, House Un-American Activities Committee, WWII-British evacuate Dunkirk France, Guyana Independence, Sydney Pollack
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Today in History - May 25, 2024
U.S. Constitutional Convention, Municipal Council of Buenos Aires, American entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky, Irish writer Oscar Wilde, Jesse Owens, Babe Ruth, Abdullah I, President John F. Kennedy, "Midnight Cowboy", "Star Wars", The Oprah Winfrey Show, George Floyd
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Today in History - May 24, 2024
The Toleration Act, Battle of Pichincha, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Abolitionists John Brown, Brooklyn Bridge Irish author William Trevor, Coin controlled parking meter, Bob Dylan, Operation Greenhouse, Eurovision Song Contest, World Trade Center, Israel
Today in History - May 23, 2024
Joan of Arc, The Defenestration of Prague, War of the Spanish Succession-Battle of Ramillies, Swedish botanist and explorer Carolus Linnaeus, WWI-Italy, Bonnie and Clyde, Tibet annexed by China, "The Shining", American rapper Eminem, American mathematician John Nash
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Today in History - May 22, 2024
Constantine the Great, German composer Richard Wagner, American painter Mary Cassatt, Abraham Lincoln, French dramatist Victor Hugo, WWII-Pact of Steel, WWII-Mexico, Chilian earthquake, President Richard Nixon, Johnny Carson, Joplin Missouri tornadoes
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Today in History - May 21, 2024
Hernando de Soto, French painter Henri Rousseau, Bleeding Kansas, Commune of Paris, Clara Barton-American Red Cross, Soviet Audrey Sakharov, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Michelangelo's Pieta, Indian politician Rajiv Gandhi, British author Dame Barbara Cartland, Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus
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Today in History - May 20, 2024
American Revolution-Peace of Paris, French author Honore de Balzac, Economist and philosopher John Stuart Mill, U.S. Homestead Act, Copper rivets patent, WWI-Triple Alliance, Cuba Independence, Cher, East Timor, David Letterman
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Today in History - May 19, 2024
Anne Boleyn beheaded, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, Thirty years war-Battle of Rocroi, Legion of Honor, English explorer John Franklin, Ringling Brothers Circus, Ho Chi Minh, Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, T.E. Lawrence, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Prince Harry - Meghan Markle
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Today in History - May 18, 2024
Montreal Canada, Abraham Lincoln, German architect Walter Gropius, "Separate but equal" doctrine, Hague Convention, Tennessee Valley Authority, WWII-Brussels fell, American aviator Jacqueline Cochran, Lhotse I mountain Himalayas, India-nuclear weapon, Mount St Helens, "Shrek", Baseball player Randy Johnson, Facebook, Roger Ailes
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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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