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This Day In History | 1979 America experiences its worst nuclear disaster when a reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania fails. Good morning Middle America. ...
This Day in History | 1953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes polio. The year before,...
This Day in History | 1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burns down, killing 146 workers, on this day in 1911. The...
This Day in History | 1989 An oil tanker named the Exxon Valdez spills 10.8 million US gallons (260,000 barrels) of crude oil into Prince William...
This Day in History | 1775 During a speech before the second Virginia Convention, Patrick Henry responds to the increasingly oppressive British rule over the American...
This Day in History | 1983 The Pentagon awards a contract worth more than $1 billion to AM General Corporation to develop 55,000 High Mobility Multipurpose...
This Day in History | 1952 Cleveland radio disk jockey Alan Freed hosts the “Moondog Coronation Ball” – the first rock and roll concert in America....
This Day in History | 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson notifies Alabama’s Governor George Wallace that he will use federal authority to call up the Alabama...
This Day in History | 2003 The U.S. led invasion of Iraq begins. No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. The U.S. declared an...
This Day in History | 1942 The War Relocation Authority is created to “Take all people of Japanese descent into custody, surround them with troops, prevent...
