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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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Fans in front of the Staples Center mourning over the death of Kobe Bryant on January 26, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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Friday, January 26, 2024

January 26 Today is the 26th day of 2024 There are 340…

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January 19. Caption: Lucille Ball with needlework before she and husband Desi Arnaz left for the hospital to give birth to “Little Ricky,” Desi Arnaz , Jr. Credit: IMDB
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Friday, January 19, 2024 

Today in History - January 19 Today is the 19th day of…

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January 12 - Caption: Clockwise from the top left, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Credit: Life Magazine
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Friday, January 12, 2024 

Today in History - January 12 Today is the 12th day of…

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January 5. Sonny Bono
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Friday, January 5, 2024 

Today in History - January 5 Today is the fifth day of…

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December 29. Caption: Big Foot’s camp three weeks after the Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec. 29, 1890), with bodies of several Lakota Sioux people wrapped in blankets in the foreground and U.S. soldiers in the background.  Credit: National Archives
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Friday, December 29, 2023 

Today in History - December 29, 2023 Today is the 363rd day…

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December 22. One of the explosive shoes of the 2001 "shoe bomber", Richard Reid Credit: FBI Lab
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Friday, December 22, 2023 

Today in History - December 22 Today is the 356th day of…

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December 15. Early Cabinet card of Sitting Bull, 1883. Popularized in 1870, cabinet cards were thin photographs mounted on cards. Credit: David Francis Barry, Public Domain. Barry was a noted photographer of the American West in the latter part of the 19th Century. To the Lakota Nation he was known as "Little Shadow Catcher
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Friday, December 15, 2023 

Today in History - December 15 Today is the 349th day of…

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December 8. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown in the Oval Office signing the Congressional declaration of war against Japan on December 8, 1941.
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Friday, December 8, 2023 

Today in History - December 8 Today is the 342nd day of…

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December 1. Rosa Parks’ Montgomery, AL booking photo in 1955, after refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a public bus.  Credit:  Public Domain
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Friday, December 1, 2023 

Today in History - December 1 Today is the 335th day of…

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