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U.S. troops land on Okinawa
This day in History: 1945 - After suffering the loss of 116 planes and damage to three aircraft carriers, 50,000 U.S. combat troops,...
FDR inaugurated
This day in History: 1933 - At the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the...
World Trade Center is bombed
This day in History: 1993 - At 12:18 p.m., a terrorist bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City,...
Donner Party rescued from the Sierra Nevada Mountains
This day in History: 1847 - The first rescuers reach surviving members of the Donner Party, a group of California-bound emigrants...
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial for war crimes
This day in History: 2002 - Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial at The Hague, Netherlands, on charges of genocide...
White supremacist convicted of killing Medgar Evers
This day in History: 1994 - White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith is convicted in the murder of African American civil rights leader...
U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects first members
This day in History: 1936 - The U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus...
Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty to bombings
This day in History: 1998 - In a Sacramento, California, courtroom, Theodore J. Kaczynski pleads guilty to all federal charges against...
Martin Luther King Jr. born
This day in History: 1929 - Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate...
Crazy Horse fights last battle
This day in History: 1877 - Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse and his men—outnumbered, low on ammunition and forced to use outdated...
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