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This Day in History | 2003 A federal grand jury serves Martha Stewart and her former stockbroker with a nine-count indictment, including charges of obstruction of...
This Day in History | 1943 A group of U.S. sailors marches through downtown Los Angeles, carrying clubs and other makeshift weapons and attacking anyone wearing...
This Day in History | 1935 Babe Ruth ends his Major League career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs. Ruth was one...
This Day in History | 1980 CNN, the world’s first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut from Atlanta, Georgia. The first story is on the...
This Day in History | 2005 W. Mark Felt’s family ends 30 years of speculation, identifying Felt, the former FBI assistant director, as “Deep Throat,” the...
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...
