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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

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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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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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