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Nazis launch Kristallnacht
This day in History: 1938 - In an event that would foreshadow the Holocaust, German Nazis launch a campaign of terror against Jewish...
Howard Hughes’s “Spruce Goose” flies
This day in History: 1947 - The Hughes Flying Boat—at one time the largest aircraft ever built—is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on...
Shootout at the O.K. Corral
This day in History: 1881 - The Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral in...
Americans defeat the British at Yorktown
This day in History: 1871 - Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers...
Columbus reaches the "New World"
This day in History: 1942 - After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island,...
Apple founder Steve Jobs dies
This day in History: 2011 - Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., which revolutionized the computer, music and mobile...
Ted Williams becomes last player to hit .400
This day in History: 1941 - Boston Red Sox’s Ted Williams plays a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics on the last day of the...
Benedict Arnold commits treason
This day in History: 1780 - During the American Revolution, American General Benedict Arnold meets with British Major John Andre to...
Francis Scott Key pens “The Star-Spangled Banner”
This day in History: 1814 - Francis Scott Key pens a poem which is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America’s national anthem, “The...
Ford pardons Nixon
This day in History: 1974 - In a controversial executive action, President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard M. Nixon...
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