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Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot
This day in History: 1968 - Shortly after midnight, Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning...
A thousand pioneers head West as part of the Great Emigration
This day in History: 1843 - The first major wagon train to the northwest departs from Elm Grove, Missouri, on the Oregon Trail. Although...
Madeleine Albright, America’s first female secretary of state, is born
This day in History: 1937 - Madeleine Albright, America’s first female secretary of state, is born Marie Jana Korbelova on May 15, 1937,...
Empire State Building dedicated
This day in History: 1931 - President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City’s Empire State Building, pressing a button from...
Apollo 13 returns to Earth
This day in History: 1970 - With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on...
ASPCA is founded
This day in History: 1866 - The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by...
Pony Express debuts
This day in History: 1860 - The first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph,...
Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac
This day in History: 1912 - In Washington, D.C., Helen Taft, wife of President William Taft, and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the...
LBJ sends federal troops to Alabama to protect a civil rights march
This day in History: 1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson notifies Alabama’s Governor George Wallace that he will use federal authority to...
Czar Alexander II assassinated in St. Petersburg
This day in History: 1881 - Czar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia since 1855, is killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb...
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