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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...
This Day in History | 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo, nonstop flight...
This Day in History | 1992 Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the face in an altercation over an affair with her husband, in Massapequa,...
This Day in History | 1980 Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in southwestern Washington, suffers a massive eruption, killing 57 people and devastating some 210...
This Day in History | 1954 The U.S. Supreme Court hands down an unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ruling that racial...
This Day in History | 1929 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out the first “Oscar’s” awards, at a dinner party for around...
