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September 2, 1864: Union Troops Capture Atlanta
During the Civil War, the fall of Atlanta proved to be a blow from which the Confederacy never recovered.
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150th Anniversary of the Battle of Second Manassas
Historian James Robertson, author of [Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend], discusses the Civil War Battle of Second Manassas and Stonewall Jackson's impact on the war.
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Civil War Battle of Second Manassas
Animation of Civil War Battle of Second Manassas
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Second Manassas showed how bloody Civil War would be
If the stunning Confederate victory at First Manassas in July 1861 had shown that a long, hard road lay ahead in this war, Second Manassas would show how bloody it would be.
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Danuta Siedzikówna - Polish National Heroine, executed August 28, 1946
Danuta Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: Inka; underground name: Danuta Obuchowicz;Polish national heroine. Born 3 September 1928, Guszczewina – died 28 August 1946, Gdańsk) was a medical orderly in the 4th Squadron (created in the Białystok area) of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Polish Home Army.[1] In 1946 she served with the Brigade's 1st Squadron in Poland's Pomorze (Pomerania) region.
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Abraham Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley
Written during the heart of the Civil War, this is one of Abraham Lincoln's most famous letters. Greeley, editor of the influential New York Tribune, had just addressed an editorial to Lincoln called "The Prayer of Twenty Millions," making demands and implying that Lincoln's administration lacked direction and resolve.
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Lincoln-Douglas debates begin - Aug 21, 1858
On this day in History, Lincoln-Douglas debates begin on Aug 21, 1858.
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Guerillas massacre residents of Lawrence, Kansas - Aug 21, 1863
On this day in History, Guerillas massacre residents of Lawrence, Kansas on Aug 21, 1863.
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THIS DAY 83 YEARS AGO: FDR's Executive Order Required Citizens to Turn in All Gold to the Government by This Day
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Gillian Welch on How April 14th Came to Be ‘Ruination Day’
April 15 may be Tax Day, but for some—especially singer Gillian Welch—it’s the 14th of April that’s notorious. April 14 marks the anniversary of three awful, fabled events: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865; the Titanic striking an iceberg in 1912 (it sank in the wee hours of the 15th); and the Black Sunday dust storm of 1935.
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"Grapes of Wrath" Is John Steinbeck's Angriest Work
The original 1939 New Republic review of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, published on this day (April 14) in 1939.
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Ravi Shankar at Monterey Pop
In celebration of Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar's birthday today (April 7).
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What happened on your birthday?
On March 1, 1692, three women in Salem, Massachusetts, were accused of practicing witchcraft.
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Terrapin Station, 2/26/77 - Grateful Dead
On this day in 1977, the Dead first performed the song suite Terrapin Station at Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA.
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12th February 2002 - Milosevic goes on trial for war crimes
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial at The Hague, Netherlands, on charges of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Milosevic served as his own attorney for much of the prolonged trial, which ended without a verdict when the so-called “Butcher of the Balkans” was found dead at age 64 from an apparent heart attack in his prison cell on March 11, 2006.
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11th February 1990 - Nelson Mandela released from prison
Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years.
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9th February 1964 - America meets the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show
At approximately 8:12 p.m. Eastern time, The Ed Sullivan Show returned from a commercial and there was Ed Sullivan standing before a restless crowd. He tried to begin his next introduction, but then stopped and extended his arms in the universal sign for “Settle Down.” “Quiet!” he said with mock gravity, and the noise died down just a little. Then he resumed: “Here’s a very amusing magician we saw in Europe and signed last summer….Let’s have a nice hand for him—Fred Kaps!”
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8th February 1587 - Mary Queen of Scots beheaded
After 19 years of imprisonment, Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England for her complicity in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I.
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February 5th 1919 - United Artists created
By 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith were all heavyweights in the rapidly growing motion-picture industry. Chaplin was a British actor and former vaudeville performer whose “Little Tramp” persona had made him one of the biggest stars of silent film. Pickford, silent film’s favorite ingenue, and Fairbanks, her leading man on-screen and off, were equally familiar to American audiences.
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4th February 1974 - Patty Hearst kidnapped
Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by two black men and a white woman, all three of whom are armed. Her fiance, Stephen Weed, was beaten and tied up along with a neighbor who tried to help. Witnesses reported seeing a struggling Hearst being carried away blindfolded, and she was put in the trunk of a car.
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