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April 19. Aerial view of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas Credit: The Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Friday, April 19, 2024

April 19 Today is Friday, April 19, the 110th day of 2024.…

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April 12. A photographic view of the Hot shot Furnace at right shoulder angle and a 10-in. Columbiad cannon pointing to Charleston; Ft Sumter April 1861 after its surrender. Credit: New York Public Library
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Friday April 12, 2024

April 12 Today is Friday, April 12, the 103rd day of 2024.…

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April 5. World Telegram photo by Roger Higgins via Library of Congress Caption: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they leave U.S. Court House after being found guilty by a jury.
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Friday April 5, 2024

April 5 Today is Friday, April 5, the 96th day of 2024.…

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Caption: United States President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act March 15. Credit: LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto
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Friday March 15, 2024

March 15 Today is Friday, March 15, the 75th day of 2024.…

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A poster promoting the World Heavyweight Championship, or “The Fight of the Century,” between Joe Frazier and Mohammed Ali, March 8, 1971.
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Friday March 8, 2024

March 8 Today is Friday, March 8, the 68th day of 2024.…

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March 1. Caption: Watergate indictments at U.S. district court Credit: U.S. News & World Report magazine photograph collection (Library of Congress)
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Friday, March 1, 2024

March 1 By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Friday,…

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February 23. Historical marker along the Santa Barbara coast where shells from a Japanese submarine caused significant fright but little damage on February 23, 1942. President Roosevelt was delivering a nationwide “Fireside Chat” on the radio when the shells hit. Credit: Goleta Valley Historical Society
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Today in History: February 23, 1942, the California coast in Santa Barbara was the site of the first foreign attack on U.S. soil since the War of 1812.

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February 16. Fidel Castro took office as Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government in a ceremony at the then Presidential Palace (today Museum of the Revolution), which was broadcast on radio and television. Credit: Misiones diplomáticas de Cuba
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Friday, February 16, 2024

February 16 Today is the 47th day of 2024. There are 319…

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February 9 - (L-R) Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Ed Sullivan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney Credit: Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
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Friday, February 9, 2024

February 9 Today is the 40th day of 2024. There are 326…

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February 2. F.W. de Klerk, left the last president of apartheid-era South Africa, and Nelson Mandela, his successor, received the America's Liberty Medal in Philadelphia in 1993. Credit: Library of Congress, Carol Highsmith Collection
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Friday, February 2, 2024

February 2 Today is the 33rd day of 2024. There are 333…

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