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This Day in History | 1977 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested and charged with being the “Son of Sam,” the serial killer who terrorized...
This Day in History | 1969 Members of Charles Manson’s cult kill five people in Beverly Hills, California, including the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski,...
This Day in History | 1974 President Richard M. Nixon announces his resignation, becoming the first president in American history to do so. Congress was advancing...
This Day in History | 1782 General George Washington creates the “Badge for Military Merit,” a decoration consisting of a purple, heart-shaped piece of silk, edged...
This Day in History | 1945 The United States becomes the first and only nation to use nuclear weapons during wartime when it drops an atomic...
This Day in History | 1962 Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying nude on her bed, face...
This Day in History | 1854 Henry David Thoreau’s classic Walden, or, A Life in the Woods is required reading in many classrooms today. But when...
This Day in History | 1949 After a damaging three-year battle to win both players and fans, the rival Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National...
This Day in History | 1990 Iraqi forces invade Kuwait, Iraq’s tiny, oil-rich neighbor. Kuwait’s defense forces were rapidly overwhelmed, and those that were not destroyed...
This Day in History | 1944 Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl hiding out in Nazi-occupied Holland whose diary came to serve as a symbol of...
