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Today in History: April 19 (4/19/24)Today is Friday, April 19, the 110th day of 2024. There are 256 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 19, 1993, the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; about 80 people, including two dozen children and sect leader David Koresh, were killed. ...
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Today in History: April 18 (4/18/24)Today is Thursday, April 18, the 109th day of 2024. There are 257 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 18, 1906, a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000...
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Today in History: April 17 (4/17/24)Today is Wednesday, April 17, the 108th day of 2024. There are 258 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 17, 1961, some 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion by the third day...
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Today in History: April 16 (4/16/24)Today is Tuesday, April 16, the 107th day of 2024. There are 259 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”...
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Today in History: April 15 (4/15/24)Today is Monday, April 15, the 106th day of 2024. There are 260 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner RMS Titanic foundered in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland more than 2 1/2 hours after hitting an iceberg; 1,514 people died, while less than half as many survived...
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Today in History: April 14 (4/14/24)Today is Sunday, April 14, the 105th day of 2024. There are 261 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington...
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Today in History: April 13 (4/13/24)Today is Saturday, April 13, the 104th day of 2024. There are 262 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first Black performer to win an Academy Award for best actor or best actress with his performance in “Lilies of the Field"...
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Today in History: April 12 (4/12/24)Today is Friday, April 12, the 103rd day of 2024. There are 263 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 12, 1861, the U.S. Civil War began as Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. On this date: In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, at age 63; he was succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman...
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Today in History: April 11 (4/11/24)Today is Thursday, April 11, the 102nd day of 2024. There are 264 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr...
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Today in History: April 10 (4/10/24)Today is Wednesday, April 10, the 101st day of 2024. There are 265 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 10, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, bound for New York on its ill-fated maiden voyage...
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Today in History: April 9 (4/9/24)Today is Tuesday, April 9, the 100th day of 2024. There are 266 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, effectively ending the U.S. Civil War after nearly four years...
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Today in History: April 8 (4/8/24)Today is Monday, April 8, the 99th day of 2024. There are 267 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth’s record...
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Today in History: April 7 (4/7/24)Today is Sunday, April 7, the 98th day of 2024. There are 268 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 7, 1994, civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi; in the months that followed, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu moderates were slaughtered by Hutu extremists...
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Today in History (4/6/24)Today is Saturday, April 6, the 97th day of 2024. There are 269 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece. On this date: In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee as Confederate forces launched a surprise attack against Union troops, who beat back the Confederates the next day...
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Today in History (4/5/24)Today is Friday, April 5, the 96th day of 2024. There are 270 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death following their conviction in New York on charges of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union...
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Today in History (4/4/24)Today is Thursday, April 4, the 95th day of 2024. There are 271 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee; his slaying was followed by a wave of rioting (Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Chicago were among cities particularly hard hit). ...
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Today in History (4/3/24)Today is Wednesday, April 3, the 94th day of 2024. There are 272 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what turned out to be his final speech, telling a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, that "I've been to the mountaintop" and "seen the Promised Land. ...
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Today in History (4/2/24)Today is Tuesday, April 2, the 93rd day of 2024. There are 273 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, the Polish pope born Karol J--zef Wojtyla, who became one of the most influential leaders of the 20th and early 21st centuries while working to build a moral foundation in the modern world and playing a crucial role in overthrowing communism, died in his Vatican apartment at age 84...
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Today in History (4/1/24)Today is Monday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2024. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool's Day. Today's Highlights in History: On April 1, 1972, the first Major League Baseball players' strike began; it lasted 12 days. Twenty years later, on April 1, 1992, the National Hockey League Players' Association went on its first-ever strike, which lasted 10 days...
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Today in History (3/31/24)Today is Sunday, March 31, the 91st day of 2024. There are 275 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an edict expelling Jews from Spanish soil, except those willing to convert to Christianity...
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Today in History (3/30/24)Today is Saturday, March 30, the 89th day of 2024. There are 276 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr.; also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and a District of Columbia police officer, Thomas Delahanty...
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Today in History (3/29/24)Today is Friday, March 29, the 89th day of 2024. There are 277 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 29, 1973, the last United States combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War...
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Today in History (3/28/24)Today is Thursday, March 28, the 88th day of 2024. There are 278 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred with a partial meltdown inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania...
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Today in History (3/27/24)Today is Wednesday, March 27, the 87th day of 2024. There are 279 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 27, 1973, "The Godfather" won the Academy Award for best picture of 1972, but its star, Marlon Brando, refused to accept his Oscar for best actor, and in what would become one of the Oscars' most famous moments sent in his place actor and activist Sacheen Littlefeather, who spoke out about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood. ...
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Today in History (3/26/24)Today is Tuesday, March 26, the 86th day of 2024. There are 280 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate techno-religious cult who committed suicide were found inside a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California...
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Today in History (3/25/24)Today is Monday, March 25, the 85th day of 2024. There are 281 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 25, 1931, in the so-called "Scottsboro Boys" case, nine young Black men were taken off a train in Alabama, accused of raping two white women; after years of convictions, death sentences and imprisonment, the nine were eventually vindicated...
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Today in History (3/24/24)Today is Sunday, March 24, the 84th day of 2024. There are 282 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil...
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Today in History (3/23/24)Today is Saturday, March 23, the 83rd day of 2024. There are 283 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 23, 1998, "Titanic" tied an Academy Awards record by winning 11 Oscars, including best picture, best director for James Cameron and best original song for "My Heart Will Go On."...
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Today in History (3/22/24)Today in History Today is Friday, March 22, the 82nd day of 2024. There are 284 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 22, 2019, former President Jimmy Carter became the longest-living chief executive in American history; at 94 years and 172 days, he exceeded the lifespan of the late former President George H.W. Bush...
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Today in History (3/21/24)Today in History Today is Thursday, March 21, the 81st day of 2024. There are 285 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third, successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama...
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Today in History (3/20/24)Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 20, the 80th day of 2024. There are 286 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 20, 1996, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their wealthy parents. (They were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.)...
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Today in History (3/19/24)Today in History Today is Tuesday, March 19, the 79th day of 2024. There are 287 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 19, 1995, after a 21-month hiatus, Michael Jordan returned to professional basketball with his former team, the Chicago Bulls. (He would go on to win three more NBA championships to go with the three he and the Bulls had already won.)...
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Today in History (3/18/24)Today in History Today is Monday, March 18, the 78th day of 2024. There are 288 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 18, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the War Relocation Authority, which was put in charge of interning Japanese-Americans, with Milton S. Eisenhower (the younger brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower) as its director...
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Today in History (3/17/24)Today in History Today is Sunday, March 17, the 77th day of 2024. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick's Day. Today's highlight in history: On March 17, 1969, Golda Meir took power in Israel, beginning a stint as prime minister that would last through five crucial years in the nation's history...
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Today in History (3/16/24)Today is Saturday, March 16, the 76th day of 2024. There are 290 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 16, 1968, the My Lai massacre took place during the Vietnam War as U.S. Army soldiers hunting for Viet Cong fighters and sympathizers killed unarmed villagers in two hamlets of Son My (suhn mee) village; estimates of the death toll vary from 347 to 504...
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Today in History (3/15/24)Today is Friday, March 15, the 75th day of 2024. There are 291 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 15, 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius. On this date:...
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Today in History (3/14/24)Today is Thursday, March 14, the 75th day of 2024. There are 292 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein, who would revolutionize physics and the human understanding of the universe, was born in Ulm, Germany...
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Today in History (3/13/24)Today is Wednesday, March 13, the 74th day of 2024. There are 293 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 13, 2013, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope, choosing the name Francis. he was the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium...
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Today in History (3/12/24)Today is Tuesday, March 12, the 72nd day of 2024. There are 294 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 12, 1955, legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker died in New York at age 34. On this date: In 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assumed command as General-in-Chief of the Union armies in the Civil War...
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Today in History (3/11/24)Today is Monday, March 11, the 71st day of 2024. There are 295 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Japan's northeastern coast, killing nearly 20,000 people and severely damaging the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station...
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Today in History (3/10/24)Today is Sunday, March 10, the 70th day of 2024. There are 296 days left in the year. Daylight saving time returns at 2 a.m. local time. Today's highlight in history: On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tennessee, to assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiated that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.)...
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Today in History (3/9/24)Today is Friday, March 9, the 69th day of 2024. There are 297 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 9, 1997, rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) was killed in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles at age 24...
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Today in History (3/8/24)Today is Friday, March 8, the 68th day of 2024. There are 298 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 8, 1971, in the first of three fights between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Frazier defeated Ali by decision in what was billed as "The Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden in New York...
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Today in History (3/7/24)Today is Thursday, March 7, the 67th day of 2024. There are 299 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff's posse in what became known as "Bloody Sunday."...
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Today in History (3/6/24)Today is Wednesday, March 6, the 66th day of 2024. There are 300 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, ruled 7-2 that Scott, a slave, was not an American citizen and therefore could not sue for his freedom in federal court...
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Today in History (3/5/24)Today is Tuesday, March 5, the 65th day of 2024. There are 301 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 5, 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died after three decades in power. On this date: In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people...
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Today in History (3/4/24)Today is Monday, March 4, the 64th day of 2024. There are 302 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term of office; with the end of the Civil War in sight, Lincoln declared:...
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Today in History (3/3/24)Today is Sunday, March 3, the 63rd day of 2024. There are 303 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 3, 1991, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video. On this date:...
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Today in History (3/2/24)Today is Saturday, March 2, the 62nd day of 2024. There are 304 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a game against the New York Knicks, an NBA record that still stands. Philadelphia won the game, 169-147...
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Today in History (3/1/24)Today is Friday, March 1, the 61st day of 2024. There are 305 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 1, 1974, seven people, including former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian, were indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with the Watergate break-in. ...
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Today in History (2/29/24)Today is Thursday, Feb. 29, the 60th day of 2024. There are 306 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 29, 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award when she took best supporting actress for "Gone With the Wind," which won eight Oscars overall including best picture...
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Today in History (2/28/24)Today is Wednesday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2024. There are 307 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 28, 2013, Benedict XVI became the first pope in 600 years to resign, ending an eight-year pontificate. (Benedict was succeeded the following month by Pope Francis.)...
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Today in History (2/27/24)Today is Tuesday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2024. There are 308 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until the following May.)...
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Today in History (2/26/24)Today is Monday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2024. There are 309 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 26, 1993, a truck bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of the North Tower of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others. (The bomb failed to topple the North Tower into the South Tower, as the terrorists had hoped; both structures were destroyed in the 9/11 attack eight years later.)...
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Today in History (2/25/24)Today is Sunday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2024. There are 310 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 25, 1964, Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) became world heavyweight boxing champion as he defeated Sonny Liston in Miami Beach...
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Today in History (2/24/24)Today is Saturday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2024. There are 311 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 24, 1942, the SS Struma, a charter ship attempting to carry nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Romania to British-mandated Palestine, was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine in the Black Sea; all but one of the refugees perished...
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Today in History (2/23/24)Today is Friday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2024. There are 312 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 23, 2007, a Mississippi grand jury refused to bring any new charges in the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was beaten and shot after being accused of whistling at a white woman, declining to indict the woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, for manslaughter...
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Today in History (2/22/24)Today is Thursday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2024. There are 313 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 22, 1980, the "Miracle on Ice" took place in Lake Placid, New York, as the United States Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)...
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Today in History (2/21/24)Today is Wednesday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2024. There are 314 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 21, 1965, minister and civil rights activist Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death inside Harlem's Audubon Ballroom in New York. ...
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Today in History (2/20/24)Today is Tuesday, Feb. 20, the 51st day of 2024. There are 315 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Project Mercury's Friendship 7 spacecraft, which circled the globe three times in a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds before splashing down safely in the Atlantic Ocean 800 miles southeast of Bermuda...
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Today in History (2/19/24)Today is Monday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2024. There are 316 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 19, 1942, during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for the relocation and internment of people of Japanese ancestry, including U.S.-born citizens...
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Today in History (2/18/24)Today is Sunday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2024. There are 317 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 18, 2001, auto racing star Dale Earnhardt Sr. died in a crash at the Daytona 500; he was 49. On this date: In 1564, Michelangelo died in Rome...
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Today in History (2/17/24)Today is Saturday, Feb. 17, the 48th day of 2024. There are 318 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 17, 1801, the U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson president; Burr became vice president...
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Today in History (2/16/24)Today is Friday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2024. There are 319 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 16, 1959, Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. On this date: In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ended as some 12,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered; Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's victory earned him the moniker "Unconditional Surrender Grant."...
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Today in History (2/14/24)Today is Wednesday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2024. There are 321 days left in the year. This is Valentine's Day. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 14, 1967, Aretha Franklin recorded her cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" at Atlantic Records in New York...
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Today in History (2/13/24)Today is Thursday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2024. There are 320 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 15, 1965, singer Nat King Cole, who despite facing extreme racism throughout his short career sold more than 50 million records that included massive hits such as "Mona Lisa" and "Route 66," died in Santa Monica, California. He was 45...
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Today in History (2/13/24)Today is Tuesday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2023. There are 322 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)...
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Today in History (2/12/24)Today is Monday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 2024. There are 323 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 12, 1983, composer and pianist Eubie Blake, who wrote such songs as "I'm Just Wild About Harry" and "Memories of You," died in Brooklyn, New York, at 96...
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Today in History (2/11/24)Today is Sunday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 2024. There are 324 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 11, 1990, South African Black activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity. On this date: In 660 B.C., tradition holds that Japan was founded as Jimmu ascended the throne as the country's first emperor...
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Today in History (2/10/24)Today is Saturday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2024. There are 325 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 10, 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a match in Philadelphia against an IBM computer dubbed "Deep Blue." (Kasparov ended up winning the match, 4 games to 2; he was defeated by Deep Blue in a rematch the following year.)...
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Today in History (2/9/24)Today is Friday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2024. There are 326 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles made their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," broadcast from New York on CBS. The quartet played six songs, including "Love Me Do" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand," to a crowd of screaming teenagers in person and more than 70 million viewers across the country...
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Today in History (2/8/24)Today is Thursday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2024. There are 327 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I...
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Today in History (2/7/24)Today is Wednesday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2024. There are 328 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 7, 1962, President John F. Kennedy imposed a full trade embargo on Cuba. On this date: In 1857, a French court acquitted author Gustave Flaubert of obscenity for his serialized novel "Madame Bovary"...
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Today in History (2/6/24)Today is Tuesday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2024. There are 329 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain's King George VI, 56, died at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he was succeeded as monarch by his 25-year-old elder daughter, who became Queen Elizabeth II...
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Today in History (2/5/24)Today is Monday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2024. There are 330 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 5, 2020, the Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump, bringing to a close the third presidential trial in American history, though a majority of senators expressed unease with Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine that resulted in the two articles of impeachment. Just one Republican, Mitt Romney of Utah, broke with the GOP and voted to convict...
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Today in History (2/4/24)Today is Sunday, Feb. 4, the 35th day of 2024. There are 331 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 4, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta...
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Today in History (2/3/24)Today is Friday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2024. There are 332 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 3, 1959, which would become known as "the day the music died," rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa...
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Today in History (2/2/24)Today is Thursday, Feb. 2, the 33rd day of 2024. There are 333 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 2, 2013, former Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle was fatally shot along with a friend, Chad Littlefield, at a gun range west of Glen Rose, Texas; suspect Eddie Ray Routh was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole...
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Today in History (2/1/24)Today is Thursday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2024. There are 334 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: In Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members: commander Rick Husband; pilot William McCool; payload commander Michael Anderson; mission specialists Kalpana Chawla, David Brown and Laurel Clark; and payload specialist Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli in space...
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Today in History (1/31/24)Today is Wednesday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2024. There are 335 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 31, 1958, the United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite, Explorer 1, from Cape Canaveral...
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Today in History (1/30/24)Today is Tuesday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2024. There are 336 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. On this date: In 1649, England's King Charles I was executed for high treason...
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Today in History (1/29/24)Today is Monday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2024. There are 337 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 29, 1936, the first inductees of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, New York...
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Today in History (1/28/24)Today is Sunday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2024. There are 338 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe...
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Today in History (1/27/24)Today is Saturday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2024. There are 339 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft...
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Today in History (1/26/24)Today is Friday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2024 There are 340 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 26, 2020, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others were killed when their helicopter plunged into a steep hillside in dense morning fog in Southern California; the former Lakers star was 41...
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Today in History (1/25/24)Today is Thursday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2024. There are 341 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 25, in 1971, Charles Manson and three women followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actor Sharon Tate...
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Today in History (1/24/24)Today is Wednesday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2024. There are 342 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 24, 1984, Apple Computer began selling its first Macintosh model, which boasted a built-in 9-inch monochrome display, a clock rate of 8 megahertz and 128k of RAM...
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Today in History (1/23/24)Today is Tuesday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2024. There are 343 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified as South Dakota became the 38th state to endorse it...
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Today in History (1/22/24)Today in History Today is Monday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2024. There are 344 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, declared a nationwide constitutional right to abortion...
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Today in History (1/21/24)Today is Sunday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2024. There are 345 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 21, 2010, a bitterly divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, vastly increased the power of big business and labor unions to influence government decisions by freeing them to spend their millions directly to sway elections for president and Congress...
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Today in History (1/14/24)Today is Sunday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2024. There are 352 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 14, 2013, cyclist Lance Armstrong ended a decade of denial by confessing to Oprah Winfrey during a videotaped interview that he'd used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France...