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This Day in History | 1848 William G. Young of Baltimore, Maryland, received US Patent number 5,601 for “An Improvement in Ice-Cream Freezers.” The invention improved...
Rioters Set Minneapolis Police Station Afire (Minneapolis Star Tribune) – Cheering protesters torched a Minneapolis police station Thursday that the department was forced to abandon as...
This Day in History | 1937 Germany government, under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party–form a new state-owned automobile company. It was renamed ...
This Day in History | 1937 San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens after five years of construction. About 200,000 people walked across it on opening day....
This Day in History | 1907 Marion Michael Morrison, who would later become known to the world as John Wayne, is born in Winterset, Iowa. Good...
This Day in History | 1977 Memorial Day weekend opens with an intergalactic bang as the first of George Lucas’ blockbuster Star Wars movies, Episode Four:...
This Day in History | 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge over the East River opens, connecting the great cities of New York and Brooklyn for the first...
This Day in History | 1934 Notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a...
This Day in History | 1856 Southern Congressman Preston Brooks savagely beats Northern Senator Charles Sumner in the halls of Congress as tensions rise over the...
This Day in History | 1821 Humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons found the American National Red Cross, to provide humanitarian aid to victims of wars...
