Watergate Break-in The fall of President Richard Nixon began on June 17, 1972, when […]
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Picture of the Day: November 10
Doctor Livingstone, I presume? In 1869, New York Herald reporter Henry Morton Stanley was […]
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Picture of the Day: June 16
Signalmen Signalmen pose aboard Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren’s flagship during the American Civil […]
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Picture of the Day: November 9
Benjamin Banneker was born in Maryland on November 9, 1731, and grew up a […]
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Picture of the Day: November 8
Cortez and the Conquest of Mexico On November 8, 1519, Spanish adventurer Hernando Cortez […]
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When the First Airmail Service Lost their Letters
First Airmail Service In the spring of 1918 the U.S. Post Office and the […]
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Picture of the Day: November 7
V.I. Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution On November 7, 1917 (October 25 on the […]
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Picture of the Day: November 5
Florence Nightingale, The Lady With the Lamp After the outbreak of the Crimean War […]
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Operation Varsity: Allied Airborne Assault Over the Rhine River
Paratroopers from two Allied divisions were droppped east of the great natural barrier, penetrating into Germany itself.
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Picture of the Day: November 6
Jeanette Rankin On November 6, 1916, lifelong feminist and pacifist Jeanette Rankin of Montana […]