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On April 23, 1940, 209 people were killed in the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 1263
On April 23, 1987, 28 construction workers died in the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 898
On this day, April 24, 1980, eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue hostages. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 868
Auschwitz Memorial: 23 April 1945 The US Army liberated the Flossenbrg camp, where they found 1,500 critically ill pr 1 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1146
On April 21, 1910, Mark Twain died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 939
On April 16, 1947, the SS Grandcamp, filled with ammonium nitrate, blew up in Texas City. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1113
On April 20, 1914, the Ludlow Massacre occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 920
On April 19, 1940, 31 people were killed when a New York Central passenger train derailed in Little Falls, New York. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 1051
Who Were The Minutemen? 0 Eko Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 1055
On April 17, 2013, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, killed 15 people. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 950
I'm Mike Wallace and this is Biography. Our story: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 0 Dennis Donovan Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 1135
On April 17, 1967, Jock Semple tried to keep Kathrine Switzer from running in the Boston Marathon. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 1159
Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 15 1375
On this day, April 18, 1923, Babe Ruth was at the first game in New York City's new Yankee Stadium. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 981
On April 16, 2007, the Virginia Tech school shootings occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 982
On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island accident happened. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1193
250 Years Ago This Month: war was starting 0 eShirl Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1441
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1413
On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 1108
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1111
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 896
On March 30, 1954, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson suffered a massive heart attack 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1069
On this day, April 9, 2003, a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was toppled. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 844
On this day, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1030
The Ziegfeld Follies 2 BootinUp Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1272
On Friday, March 28, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 885
On March 29, 1961, police used clubs and German Shepherds to attack Black citizens outside a courthouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 822
On March 29, 1945, Roosevelt went to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, for some rest. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 883
On April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 905
On March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 998

American History Continued...

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On April 5, 1949, a fire started in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois. 77 people died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 774
On April 5, 2010, twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion in the Upper Big Branch coal mine. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 838
On the night of April 5 - 6, 1936, the 1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 821
On this day, April 4, 1859, Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New York City' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 838
On April 4, 1936, the Hindenburg arrived in Rio de Janeiro. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 899
On April 6, 1958, Capital Airlines Viscount N7437 crashed on final approach to Freeland MI 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 800
On this day, April 8, 1897, there were numerous sightings of UFOs over Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1055
Joe Harris, 108, Dies; Thought to Be the Oldest World War II Paratrooper 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 13 1378
On March 27, 1924, computing pioneer Margaret Butler was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 857
On this day Mar 25, 2016 Bird lands on Sanders' podium during Portland rally 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1303
Richard Carlson, Journalist Who Led Voice of America, Dies at 84 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1055
Major General Smedley Butler bares plot by 'Fascists' in Newtown Square Pennsylva...HD Stock Footage 0 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1228
On this day, Friday, March 27, 2020, this was the front page of The New York Times: 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1119
On this day, March 27, 1960, the last scheduled steam-powered passenger train in the United States ran. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 1062
Along Party Lines 0 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 868
On this day, March 26, 1997, thirty-nine bodies were found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2025 3 1535
On this day, March 26, 1997, thirty-nine bodies were found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 1099
On this day, March 26, 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima ended as the island was officially secured by American forces. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 782
On this day, March 25, 1911, or maybe one of five other days, Jack Ruby was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 918
On this day, March 25, 1947, there was an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 coal mine. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 980
On this day, March 25, 1914, Norman Borlaug was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 875
On March 23, 1977, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, opened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 886
On this day, March 24, 1839, the last detachment of Cherokee people arrived in Indian Territory. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1261
On March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 826
On March 22, 1945, Eleanor and Franklin went to Union Station to meet the visiting Governor General of Canada. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 921
On March 22, 1984, teachers at a preschool were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 921
On March 23, 2005, the Texas City refinery explosion occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 1003
On March 23, 1923, the oldest extant high school AM radio station in the United States was licensed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 853
Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 827
WCBB's Angus King "A Conversation with Margaret Chase Smith" 1988 1 eShirl Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 935

American History Continued...

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On this day, Friday, March 21, 1952, Alan Freed presented the Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 966
On March 19, 1987, Jim Bakker resigned from PTL. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1149
On March 20, 1949, the California Zephyr made its first run. Its last run was on March 22, 1970. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 938
On March 17, 1933, Myrlie Louise Beasley was born. In 1951, she married Medgar Evers. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1078
Larry Buendorf, U.S. Agent Who Saved President Ford, Dies at 87; Sunday, March 16, 2025 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 1044
Ron Nessen, press secretary to President Ford, dies at 90; Friday, March 14, 2025 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 834
On this day, March 19, 1945, a Japanese dive bomber hit the USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1184
On this day, March 19, 1979, C-SPAN started operation. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 865
On this day, March 19, 1958, the Monarch Underwear Company fire occured. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 800
On March 18, 1925, the Tri-State tornado hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 814
On March 18, 1990, the largest art theft in US history happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 901
On March 18, 1937, the New London School explosion occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 775
On March 17, 1945, the "Bridge at Remagen" collapsed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 911
On March 17, 1948, the Hells Angels were formed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 872
On March 18, 1966, Studebaker finally shut down. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 789
On March 16, 1968, the My Lai massacre occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 994
On March 16, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had its largest point drop in history. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 852
The Divine Connection: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Radical Vision of Nature and Self 1 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 844
On March 15, 1933, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 941
On February 28, 1956, 13 people were killed and 143 injured in two train wrecks on the same line on the same day. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 Mar 2025 0 862
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