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On September 6, 1995, Cal Ripken Jr. played in a baseball game for the 2,131st time in a row. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 673
On September 6, 1869, a continuous railroad line was extended from Omaha to Alameda, California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 756
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On this day, September 4, 2019, Sharpiegate happened. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 801
It's "E Day." On this day, September 4, 1957, the Edsel was introduced. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 887
On this day, September 4, 1957, Elizabeth Eckford attempted to enter Little Rock Central High. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 5 757
On this day, September 4, 1949, the Peekskill riots erupted after a Paul Robeson concert in NY. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 806
On this day, September 4, 2015, same-sex couples were issued marriage licenses in Rowan County, Kentucky. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 718
On this day, September 4, 1882, the electrical age began. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 5 707
On September 1, 1914, Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 889
On August 31, 1940, a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3A crashed near Lovettsville VA. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 1040
On September 1, 1961, the deadliest (at the time) single plane disaster in U.S. history happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 5 814
On September 1, 1894, the Great Hinckley Fire started. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 674
On September 2, 1885, the Rock Springs massacre occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 665
On this day, September 3, 1925, the USS Shenandoah was destroyed in a squall over Ohio. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 641
Reticence on Policy and the Ranking of America's Greatest Presidents. 1 NNadir Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 909
On this day, August 28, 2014, America was subjected to its most unspeakably horrifying day of shame ever. 10 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 14 2240
On this day, August 29, 2007, Richard Jewell died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 930
On this day, August 29, 1944, troops of the 28th Infantry Division marched down the Champs Elysees. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 695
On this day, August 28, 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 680
Emmett Till August 28, 1955 1 spike jones Aug 2024 Aug 2024 6 1182
On this day, August 28, 2003, Brian Wells died during a bank robbery, in a most unusual way. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 1115
Brandon Museum & Rec co-host program on Vermont's darker history: eugenics 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 669
On this day, August 27, 1963, an explosion at the Cane Creek potash mine near Moab, Utah, killed 18 miners. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 646
The Battle of Blair Mountain, Largest US Labor Uprising: Aug. 25- Sept. 2, 1921 4 appalachiablue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 1262
Some History Involving RFK Jr., his father, and, um, Joe McCarthy...THAT McCarthy. 11 NNadir Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 2298
On this day, August 26, 1968, the Democratic National convention opened in Chicago. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 789
On this day, August 26, 2021, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport killed 13 US military personnel. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 719
On this day, August 26, 2009, kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard was discovered alive in California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 6 806
On this day, August 26, 2015, two Virginia TV station workers were shot and killed while on the air. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 757

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On August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 823
On this day, August 25, 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated while doing the laundry. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 18004
On this day, August 24, 1814, the British set the Presidential Mansion and the Capitol on fire. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 804
On this day, August 24, 1970, the Army Mathematics Research Center at UWisconsin was bombed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 819
On this day, August 24, 1919, Ray Caldwell survived a lightning strike during a baseball game. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 734
Archaeologists in Virginia find colonial-era garden, clues about slaves who tended it 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 11 827
On this day, August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake was felt across the eastern U.S. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 777
On this day, August 23, 1933, the Chesapeake-Potomac hurricane made landfall on the Outer Banks. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 719
On this day, August 23, 1891, Elijah Barrett Prettyman was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 614
On this day, August 22, 1965, SF Giant Juan Marichal hit LA Dodger John Roseboro on the head with a bat. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 1093
On this day, August 22, 1880, "Krazy Kat" cartoonist George Herriman was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 682
On this day, August 22, 2003, Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 656
On this day, August 22, 1992, an FBI sniper shot and killed Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 743
Fannie Lou Hamer rattled Democratic convention 60 years ago with 'Is this America?' speech 3 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 994
On August 18, 1962, "Miss Sherri" of Arizona's version of "Romper Room" got an abortion in Sweden. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 1167
On this day, August 21, 2017, a solar eclipse traversed the continental United States. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 800
On this day, August 21, 1945, physicist Harry Daghlian was fatally irradiated at Los Alamos. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2023 Aug 2024 1 1239
On this day, August 21, 1945, physicist Harry Daghlian was fatally irradiated at Los Alamos. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 941
On this day, August 21, 1939, one of America's first sit-ins took place. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 706
On this day, August 20, 1989, as their parents watched television, Lyle and Erik Menendez shot them to death. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 814
Then Again: Finding Addie [child laborer] 1 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 6 721
On August 17, 1915, Leo Frank was lynched in Marietta, Georgia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 807
On August 17, 1915, a category 4 hurricane made landfall in Galveston, Texas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 659
On this day, August 19, 1962, this president was not wearing a tan suit. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 787
From August 14 through August 16, 1908, the Springfield, Illinois, race riot of 1908 occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 730
On Aug. 17, 1964, the final stretch of the Capital Beltway opened to traffic. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 665
On this day, August 16, 1955, Boston's polio epidemic hit a high of 480 cases. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 1017
On this day, August 16, 1884, Hugo Gernsback was born. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 953
On this day, August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died, many people believe. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 1076
On November 16, 2018, Miriam Adelson and Elvis Presley received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 1103

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On this day, August 16, 1969, Charles Manson was arrested on suspicion of car theft. He was released a few days later. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 892
On this day, August 16, 1920, Ray Chapman was struck in the head by a pitch. He died the following morning. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 634
On this day, August 16, 1969, Hurricane Camille headed for the US after striking Cuba. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 748
From Robert Reich's Washington diary: April 20, 1994 1 elleng Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 757
On this day, August 15, 1969, "An Aquarian Exposition in White Lake,N.Y." began. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 869
Aug. 14, 1935: FDR Signs the Social Security Act 3 appalachiablue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 11 1018
On this day, August 14, 1945, Japan surrendered. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 747
On this day, August 14, 1969, Hurricane Camille formed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 1022
On August 14, 2023, Donald Trump was charged in Georgia with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 719
On this day, August 14, 2003, the Northeast blackout of 2003 started. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 647
On this day, August 13, 1963, the roof of the Sheppton anthracite coal mine collapsed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 870
On this day, August 13, 1967, two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in Glacier NP. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 827
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On this day, August 13, 1860, sharpshooter and wild west show sensation Annie Oakley was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 656
On this day, August 12, 1981, the IBM PC was released. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 797
On this day, August 12, 2017, the Unite the Right rally occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 658
On August 10, 2020, a derecho in Iowa became the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 653
On August 10, 1927, President Coolidge dedicated the site of Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 711
On the night of August 11, 2017, some 200 white supremacists and neo-Nazis marched up the Lawn at UVa. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 730
On this day, August 11, 1942, actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 1334
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