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This picture of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy talking to campaign workers in Los Angeles was made minutes before he was shot early today, June 5, 1968. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. After making a short speech, Kennedy left the platform and was shot in an adjacent room.  Credit: AP Photo/Dick Strobel
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May 29, 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary after successfully completing the first ascent of Mount Everest at 11.30am.
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Friday, May 29, 2026

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May 8. Four MPs take a break along a German road to read in the "Stars and Stripes" newspaper about the Nazi surrender. Credit: U.S.Army
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May 1. In this May 3, 2011, file photo local people and media gather outside the perimeter wall and sealed gate of the compound and house, top left, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The hunt for Osama bin Laden took nearly a decade. Bin Laden, who was the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, and Pentagon in Arlington, Virgina, was killed by an elite team of Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011.  Credit: AP Photo/Anjum Naveed,
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Friday, May 1, 2026

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April 24. The building to house the collections of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. under construction in 1893. Prior to the construction of the standalone library, the collection was housed in the Capital and suffered from limited space, understaffing, and a lack of annual appropriations. 
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Friday, April 24, 2026

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Colorized Photo. Members of the invading force, Brigade 2506, surrender to Cuban soldiers. They were tried, convicted, some executed, and imprisoned until December 1962 when an agreement was struck to return them to the United States in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine.  By Miguel Vinas - Warfare Blog
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April 10. President Richard Nixon Visits Beijing for a ping pong exhibition game in 1972, a year after the first American delegation of any kind had set foot in Beijing since 1949. Nixon was the first president ever to visit China.  Credit: U.S. National Archives
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Friday, April 10, 2026

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March 27. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
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Friday, March 27, 2026

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