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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...
This Day in History | 1969 The Woodstock music festival opens on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York...
This Day in History | 1926 Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is born in the Oriente province of eastern Cuba. Trump Goes to War with Postal Service...
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...
