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Financial Fraud - Charles Ponzi, Full Story of the Original Ponzi Scheme That Fooled Boston in 1920 - Joe Blogs 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1178
Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 43 3066
On this day, April 13, 1953, Project MKUltra was started. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1423
On this date, April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 984
On this day, April 12, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1311
On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 41 2705
Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt 7 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 Apr 2024 12 2669
On this day, April 12, 1955, it was announced that the polio vaccine Jonas Salk developed was safe. (2024 thread) 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1184
On this day, April 11, 1945, American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1506
Alexandria lecture explores harrowing story of woman who killed her children rather than have them sold into slavery 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1325
On this day, April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins was born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1355
On this day, April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher sank. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1188
On the night of April 10, 1956, Nat King Cole was beaten onstage in Birmingham, Alabama. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 1462
In the small village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant 0 elleng Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 972
On this day 1865 CSA surrenders. Civil War ends.? 1 spike jones Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1376
On this day, April 9, 2003, a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was toppled. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1313
On this day, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1179
On this day, April 4, 1859, Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New York City' 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 1092
An Extremely Interesting View of Four Presidents and the Constitution. 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1427
On April 7, 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 1011
On April 6, 1958, Capital Airlines Viscount N7437 crashed on final approach to Freeland MI 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1103
On this day, April 5, 1949, a fire started in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois. 77 people died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 992
On this day, April 5, 2010, twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion in the Upper Big Branch coal mine. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1073
On the night of April 5 - 6, 1936, the 1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1044
I'm reading through Eleanor Roosevelt's Correspondence with President Harry Truman. 2 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 13 1370
On this day, April 4, 1936, the Hindenburg arrived in Rio de Janeiro. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1183
Did Native Americans have stories about the die-off when Europeans arrived? 4 raccoon Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1448
On this day, April 3, 1860, the Pony Express began operation. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1077
On this day, April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Memphis and checked in to the Lorraine Motel. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1081
On this day, April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1059

American History Continued...

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On this day, April 1, 1976, Conrail was formed. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1081
The Fall of Wake Island... and Donald Trump's tooth brush... 2 DemocraticPatriot Mar 2024 Apr 2024 4 1740
On this day, March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not be running for another term. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1199
On this day, March 30, 1954, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson suffered a massive heart attack 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1422
On this day, March 30, 1942, 227 residents of Bainbridge Island, Washington, were rounded up. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1266
On this day, March 29, 1945, Roosevelt went to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia, for some rest. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 11 1221
On March 29, 1961, police used clubs and German Shepherds to attack Black citizens outside a courthouse. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1101
Sergeant Stubby, most decorated American "war dog" of World War One 1 steve2470 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1594
On this day, March 28, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1329
On Friday, March 27, 2020, this was the front page of The New York Times: 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 15 1721
On this day, March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island accident happened. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 1152
On this day, March 18, 1966, Studebaker finally shut down. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1516
On this day, March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1601
On this day, March 27, 1960, the last scheduled steam-powered passenger train in the United States ran. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1347
On this day, March 26, 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima ended as the island was officially secured by American forces. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1160
On March 23, 1977, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, opened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1199
On this day, March 24, 1839, the last detachment of Cherokee people arrived in Indian Territory. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 1300
Doris Miller, Hero Pearl Harbor 1941, Fired AA Machine Gun from USS West Virginia, Navy Cross 8 appalachiablue Mar 2024 Mar 2024 18 2308
On this day, March 25, 1947, there was an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 coal mine. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1331
On this day, March 25, 1914, Norman Borlaug was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 1068
On this day, March 23, 2005, the Texas City refinery explosion occurred. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 1111
On this day, March 23, 1923, the oldest extant high school AM radio station in the United States was licensed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1405
On this day, March 22, 1984, teachers at a preschool were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1576
On this day, March 22, 1945, Eleanor and Franklin went to Union Station to meet the visiting Governor General of Canada. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 1181
On this day, March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 894
On March 20, 1949, the California Zephyr made its first run. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1169
On this day, March 21, 1952, Alan Freed presented the Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 1041
On March 11, 1943, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette was argued before the Supreme Court. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1084
On this day, March 19, 1945, a Japanese dive bomber hit the USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1472
On this day, March 19, 1958, the Monarch Underwear Company fire occured. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 990

American History Continued...

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On this day, March 18, 1990, the largest art theft in US history happened. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 979
On this day, March 18, 1937, the New London School explosion occurred. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1422
Mar 3, 2015 Watch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's full speech to Congress 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1249
On this day, March 17, 1945, the "Bridge at Remagen" collapsed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1153
On this day, March 17, 1948, the Hells Angels were formed. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1244
On this day, March 17, 1933, Myrlie Louise Beasley was born. In 1951, she married Medgar Evers. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 903
On this day, March 16, 1968, the My Lai massacre occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1121
On this day, March 16, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had the largest point drop in history. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 1125
On this day, February 27, 1943, an explosion ripped through Smith Mine No. 3 in Montana. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 Mar 2024 2 1124
On this day, March 15, 1933, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 943
On this day, March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born. On this day, March 14, 2018, Stephen Hawking died. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1059
On this day, March 13, 1961, JFK proposed the Alliance for Progress in Latin America. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 876
On this day, March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam in Los Angeles failed. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 893
On this day, March 12, 2008, Eliot Spitzer announced his resignation as governor of New York. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 959
On this day, March 12, 1933, Roosevelt delivered his first fireside chat. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 873
On March 9, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to Congress. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1041
On March 9, 2009, the bear market of 2007-2009 bottomed out. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 904
On the night of March 9-10, 1945, the American Army Air Force firebombed Tokyo. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 1132
On March 10, 1913, Harriet Tubman died. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1112
On this day, March 11, 1888, the Great Blizzard of 1888 began. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1244
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