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This Day in History | 1995 Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks Lou Gerig’s record for consecutive games played in Major League Baseball. Ripken’s 2131st straight game surpassed...
This Day in History | 1774 The first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia. Fifty-six delegates from all the colonies except...
This Day in History | 1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Supreme Court justice after his senate confirmation. He would remain on the Court...
This Day in History | 2005 Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans as a Category 4 hurricane. Katrina was among the worst natural disasters in...
This Day in History | 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks to about 250,000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The demonstrators–Black...
This Day in History | 2007 NFL Quarterback Michael Vick pleads guilty in Richmond, Virginia to one federal felony charge related to running a dogfighting ring....
This Day in History | 1989 Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose accepts a settlement that includes a lifetime ban from the game as punishment for betting...
This Day in History | 1619 “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by...
This Day in History | 1877 Billy the Kid wounds an Arizona blacksmith who dies the next day. He was the famous outlaw’s first victim. Billy...
This Day in History | 1896 George Carmack spots gold nuggets in a creek While salmon fishing near the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory. His...
