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This Day in History | 1862 Abraham Lincoln creates the Congressional Medal of Honor by signing into a law an order to create a commendation for...
This Day in History | 1804 Aaron Burr shoots and kills Alexander Hamilton during a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. Hamilton and Burr were long-time political...
This Day in History | 2007 The United States removes the bald eagle from its List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. The bald eagle, which had...
This Day in HIstory | 1950 President Truman orders U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion...
This Day in History | 1876 Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong...
This Day in History | 1997 U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico,...
This Day in History | 1992 Mafia boss John Gotti, nicknamed the “Teflon Don” because he avoided convictions in previous trials, gets a life sentence after...
This Day in History | 1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the...
This Day in History | 1788 New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the...
This Day in History | 1975 Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters....
