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Joan Anderson, Unsung Heroine of Hula Hoop History, Dies at 101 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 795
On this day, July 31, 1968, "Peanuts" got a new character, Franklin. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 773
On this day, July 31, 1969, Gary Alan Hinman was found murdered in Topanga Canyon, California. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 913
On Sunday, July 28, 1974, this was the front page of the New York Times: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 864
On this day, July 30, 1965, LBJ signed the Social Security Act of 1965 into law. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 804
On July 29, 1967, a fire broke out on board the USS Forrestal. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 934
On this day, July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa was seen in public for the last time. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 690
On July 29, 1924, Elizabeth Short, the "Black Dahlia," was born. She was murdered in 1947. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 702
On this day, July 30, 1974, Richard Nixon released subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 563
On the night of July 13-14, 1966, Richard Speck killed eight student nurses in their Chicago residence. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 708
On July 15, 1962, Morton Mintz of the Washington Post broke the thalidomide story. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 932
Washington Post, Monday, July 28, 1952: "'Saucer' Outran Jet, Pilot Reveals" 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1021
On this day, July 28, 1973, nearly 600,000 people attended "The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen," in Watkins Glen, New York. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 847
On this day, July 28, 1945, a B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 14. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 858
On this day, July 28, 1967, sheriff's deputies apprehended Charles Manson and 14-year-old runaway Ruth Ann Moorehouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 849
On this day, July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 for Nixon's impeachment. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 632
On this day, July 27, 1969, Gary Alan Hinman was killed. It was the first of the Manson Family slayings. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 869
On this day, July 26, 1863, the Confederate Army got as far north as it ever would. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 870
On this day, July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 696
On this day, July 26, 1945, the USS Indianapolis arrived at Tinian with components for the "Little Boy" bomb. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 649
On this day, July 26, 1948, Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 592
July 25 1960 the Woolworth Lunch counter sit ins ended 3 irisblue Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 884
On this day, July 25, 1944, Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair was killed in action in France. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 754
On July 25, 1972, VP nominee Eagleton acknowledged that he had received electroshock therapy for clinical depression. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 654
On this day, July 25, 1972, the story of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study broke. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 594
On July 23, 1973, Nixon refused to turn over presidential tapes to the Sen. Watergate Cmte. or the special prosecutor. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 616
On this day, July 24, 1911, Hiram Bingham III re-discovered Machu Picchu. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 625
On July 23, 1928, astronomer Vera Rubin was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 544
On July 23, 1962, Telstar relayed the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 1039
On this day, July 24, 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that Nixon could not withhold subpoenaed White House tapes. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 609

American History Continued...

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On this day, July 24, 1935, the Dust Bowl heat wave reached its peak. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 546
On this day, July 24, 1897, Amelia Earhart was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 588
On this day, July 24, 1998, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Jacob Chestnut and Detective John Gibson were shot and killed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 592
On July 23, 1967, the 1967 Detroit riot began. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 593
On this day, July 19, 1969, Senator Kennedy crashed his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 700
On July 18, 1966, the Hough riots began in Cleveland, Ohio. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 602
On the night of July 19, 1952, an air traffic controller at Washington National Airport saw seven objects on his radar. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 756
On July 19, 1919, the Washington race riot of 1919 began. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 547
On July 19, 1969, Apollo 11 went behind the Moon and fired its service propulsion engine to enter lunar orbit. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 508
On this day, July 21, 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2025 4 1714
On July 21, 2003, the Kinzua Viaduct was destroyed by a tornado. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 621
On this day, July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 606
On July 21, 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 536
Pictures from Michael Beschloss; July 21, 2020. From 1944, 1952, 1959, and 1969. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 629
On this day, July 22, 1893, Katharine Lee Bates wrote "America the Beautiful." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 532
On this day, July 22, 1926, Dorcas Reilly, the inventor or popularizer of the green bean casserole, was born. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 890
On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air off the coast of Long Island and crashed in the Atlantic Ocean. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 679
Herblock, July 21, 1974: "How Can They Say He Hasn't Faithfully Executed The Laws?" 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 729
On this day, July 17, 1902, Willis Carrier created the first air conditioner, in Buffalo, New York. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 757
100 years: A Route 66 ghost town was 'frozen in time'. Is it on the brink of a comeback? 3 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1416
On July 15, 1979, Jimmy Carter went on TV. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 764
On tis day, July 17, 2001, Katharine Graham died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 631
On July 17, 1975, the commanders of the Apollo and the Soyuz exchanged the first international handshake in space. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 693
On July 15, 1940, Ronald Gene Simmons, the most prolific mass murderer in Arkansas history, was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 653
On this day, July 17, 1944, two ships laden with munitions for World War II exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 641
On this day, July 17, 1941, Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell summoned George Bergstrom and Major Hugh Casey. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 634
On July 16, 1945, the Atomic Age began, and the USS Indianapolis left San Francisco with a secret cargo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 557
On this day, July 17, 1981, a walkway collapsed at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 694
On July 13, 1923, James H. Harvey was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 581
On this day, July 14, 2001, Katharine Graham fell on a sidewalk in Sun Valley, Idaho. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 812

American History Continued...

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On this day, July 14, 1965, Adlai Stevenson died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 550
On this day, July 14, 1970, the Nixons welcomed Prince Charles and Princess Anne to the White House. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 578
On this day, July 13, 2021, analog TV broadcasting in the United States, other than Alaska, came to an end. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 802
On this day, July 12, 1917, vigilantes kidnapped and deported 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 768
On June 19, 1947, Pan Am Flight 121 crashed following an engine failure and in-flight fire 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 636
On this day, July 12, 1973, the National Personnel Records Center caught on fire. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 810
On the night of July 12, 1979, Disco Demolition Night was held at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 1097
On July 11, 1944, Democratic Party leaders concerned by the president's declining health met with him in the White House 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 882
On July 10, 1913, the air temperature in Furnace Creek, California, reached 134 degrees F. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 638
On July 11, 1960, "To Kill a Mockingbird" was published. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 660
On July 10, 1962, communications satellite Telstar 1 became the first privately sponsored space launch. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 632
On July 10, 2012, the Episcopal Church USA allowed same-sex marriage. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 516
On July 10, 1856, -- or July 28, 1856, -- Nikola Tesla was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 597
On July 10, 1972, the Democratic convention opened in Miami Beach. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 495
On July 5, 1971, the 26th Amendment was formally certified by Richard Nixon. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 725
On July 9, 1982, Pan Am flight 759 crashed shortly after takeoff from New Orleans as the result of a microburst. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 667
On this day, July 9, 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled a wall of 32 Campbell Soup can paintings at an LA gallery. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 525
On this day, July 9, 1981, Nintendo released "Donkey Kong." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 611
On this day, July 9, 1937, a fire broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 569
On this day, July 9, 1864, the Battle of Monocacy was fought. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 538
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