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On the night of June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were stabbed to death. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 907
On this day, June 12, 1776, the Virginia Convention adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 695
On this day, June 13, 1865, 1942, 1966, 1967, and 1971, all kinds of things happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 906
On this day, June 12, 1963, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1331
On this day, June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Loving v. Virginia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 1151
On this day in history the Battle of St. Leonard Creek began. 0 elleng Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 688
Most Comical Invasion Ever - How America Captured Guam Without Landing A Single Shot-Video 0 Eko Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 806
On this day, June 11, 1963, John F. Kennedy proposed what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 701
On this day, June 11, 1963, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 640
On this day, June 11, 1963, George Wallace stood in a schoolhouse door. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 650
On this day, "JFK gave best speech of his life, {June 10, 1963}, at American University:" 8 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 33 2571
On June 9, 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy was asked, "Have you no sense of decency, at long last?" 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 1062
On this day, June 10, 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 809
On June 9 and 10, 1960, the Arlington County, Virginia, lunch counter sit-ins occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 779
On this day, June 10, 2009, James Wenneker von Brunn opened fire inside the US Holocaust Museum. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 887
On this day, June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 into law. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 646
On this day, June 8, 1789, James Madison introduced the Bill of Rights to Congress. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 743
On this day, June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's funeral train ran from New York City to Washington, D.C. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 968
On this day, June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phc was burned by napalm. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 12 850
On this day, June 8, 1966, an XB-70A Valkyrie and F-104 Starfighter collided in mid-air. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 799
On this day, June 8, 2023, Pat Robertson died. 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 1400
Canada and D-Day: On June 7 through June 17, 1944, the Ardenne Abbey massacres occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 763
Happy **** The Draft Day! On June 7, 1971, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Cohen v. California. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 825
On this day, June 7, 1965, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 996
From June 3 through June 8, 1943, the Zoot Suit Riots occurred in Los Angeles, California. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1093
On this day, June 7, 1911, industrial designer Brooks Stevens was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 692
On this day, June 6, 1980, the Strategic Air Command was again alerted that the Soviet Union was attacking the US. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 9181
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On this day, June 5, 1981, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ran a report about an unusual disorder. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 802
On this day, June 5, 1946, the La Salle Hotel fire in Chicago killed 61 people. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 933

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On this day, June 5, 1976, the Teton Dam, on the Teton River in Idaho, failed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 1066
On this day, June 4, 1939, MS St. Louis, carrying 963 German Jewish refugees, was denied permission to land in Florida. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 839
On this day, June 4, 1944, the United States Fifth Army captured Rome. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 930
On June 3, 1980, the Strategic Air Command was alerted that the Soviet Union was attacking the US. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1690
May 30, 1937: the Memorial Day massacre that Americans weren't supposed to remember 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 13 914
On this day, June 3, 1781, Jack Jouett rode 40 miles to warn Thomas Jefferson of a plan to capture him. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 674
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In the first week in June 1944, Americans prepared for the landing on D-Day. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 807
On this day, June 1, 1861, the Battle of Fairfax Court House took place. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 811
On this day, June 1, 1963, young Black people were prevented from entering Bishop's Restaurant in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 875
On this day, June 1, 1944, American Rangers posed on a British landing craft in Weymouth, England. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 1048
On this day, June 1, 2008, the Universal Studios fire broke out. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 695
On this day, May 31, 2013, the largest recorded tornado in U.S. history crossed central Oklahoma. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 4 886
On this day, May 31, 2019, thirteen people died in a shooting inside a municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 3 750
On this day, May 31, 1921, the Tulsa race massacre began. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 6 920
On this day, May 30, 1963, JFK made what would become his final Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 3 911
On this day, May 30, 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 3 773
On May 23, 1903, Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker set off to cross the United States in an automobile. 3 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 6 971
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On this day, May 29, 1950, Norfolk and Western Railway locomotive # 611 entered revenue service. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 1 844
On this day, May 29, 1917, John F. Kennedy was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 2 692
On this day, May 23, 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died outside Gibsland, Louisiana. 4 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 2 1164
On this day, May 26, 1934, the Pioneer Zephyr made its record-breaking Denver-Chicago run. 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 6 1502
On this day, May 25, 1979, the deadliest aviation accident in United States history occurred. 7 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 29 2687
On this day, May 25, 1961, President Kennedy called for a manned lunar landing. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 1 693
Eleven days before his death, Robert Kennedy as if looking into the future, Astoria OR, May 24, 1968 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 10 1164
On this day, May 23, 1939, 26 sailors and civilians died when the USS Squalus sank off the coast of New Hampshire. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 3 803
At 9:00 a.m. on May 23, 1865, Maj. Gen. George Meade led the Army of the Potomac down the streets of Washington D.C. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 1 827
On this day, May 22, 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank. 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 4 1370
On this day, May 21, 1924, Leopold and Loeb kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks. 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 1 1574

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On this day, May 22, 1949, James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense, died. 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 1 4617
On this day, May 22, 2011, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 0 788
On this day, May 21, 1976, the bus crash that became the NTSB's deadliest highway disaster investigation ever occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 5 972
On the night of May 21, 1979, the "White Night" riots in San Francisco occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 2 913
On May 19, 1962, Marilyn Monroe wished President Kennedy a happy birthday. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 0 845
On this day, May 20, 2013, 24 people were killed when an EF5 tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 3 713
May 18, 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson 2 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 8 1189
At noon on this day, May 19, 2014, a ban on same-sex marriage in the Oregon constitution was overturned. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 1 807
"Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" On this day, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 10 1523
On this day, May 18, 1927, the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 13 1197
Chief Justice at time of initiation of Brown Case, Vinson, died, and replaced by Earl Warren, 3 elleng May 2024 May 2024 3 1496
On this day, May 17, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education was decided. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 1 1165
A nuclear reactor was melting down. Jimmy Carter came to the rescue. 2 Uncle Joe May 2024 May 2024 17 1269
On this day, May 15, 1916, Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas. 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 4 990
After a borderland shootout, a 100-year-old battle for the truth 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 4 1432
On this day, May 15, 2008, California became the second U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 1 806
On this day, May 14, 1988, the deadliest incident involving drunk driving in U.S. history occurred. 6 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 2 1853
On this day, May 14, 2022, ten people, all African Americans, were murdered in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 2 891
On this day, May 14, 1607, Jamestown was founded. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 2 817
On this day, May 14, 1961, a Freedom Riders bus was attacked and set on fire near Anniston, Alabama. 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 2024 May 2024 1 892
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