On this day in 1989 East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This was the beginning of the end for Communist-controlled […]
On this day in 1940 POTUS Franklin Roosevelt won a record third term in office handling beating Wendell Willkie by an electoral vote of 449 to 82. I do not […]
Jefferson Davis had been serving as provisional President of the Confederate States of America since February of 1861 but on this day he was elected to the office. The President […]
a good ten minute summary of the Iranian Hostage crisis which lasted 444 days- 1979-81. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc_lEHJe8ko
On this day in 1965 a 31 year old Quaker named Norman Morrison set himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use […]
I love ‘They Might Be Giants”- and one of my favourite songs by them is “James K. Polk”… James K. Polk was born on this date in 1795. link to […]
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