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On this day in 1962, 50 years ago today President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on television revealing for the first time to the public that U.S. spy planes […]
Former South Dakota Senator and the 1972 Democratic Presidential candidate George S. McGovern has died at the age of 90. McGovern was a liberal. I would probably with a lot […]
This was one of those turning points during the Nixon Watergate scandal where you had the feeling Nixon had lost the plot and the tide was against him and he […]
On this day in 1933 Albert Einstein fled Hitler and Nazi Germany and moved to the United States. He would take a position at the Institute of Advanced Study at […]
On this day in 1854 Abraham Lincoln in response to a speech by The Little Giant, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas, denounced slavery in a speech in Peoria, Illinois. This speech […]
On this day in 1793 Marie Antoinette met the guillotine, nine months after her husband the former King Louis XVI of France had lost his head to the same device. […]
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