Jun 18, 2013 |
Local law authorities searched for Jimmy Hoffa’s body in a field in Oakland Township, Monday, June 17, 2013.
Jun 18, 2013 |
On this day – June 18, 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
Jun 17, 2013 |
On this day – June 17, 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor. (AP, Wikipedia)
Jun 11, 2013 |
On July 11, 1963 two black students enrolled at the University of Alabama despite Alabama Governor George C. Wallace’s efforts to stop them.
Jun 11, 2013 |
On this day – June 11, 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
Jun 07, 2013 |
On this day – June 7,1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
Jun 05, 2013 |
On this day – June 5, 1968 Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
Jun 04, 2013 |
On this day – June 4, 1940 -The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous “We shall fight on the beaches” speech.
May 30, 2013 |
Started in March 1914 the Memorial was finished on schedule. Commission president William H. Taft – who was then Chief Justice of the United States – dedicated the Memorial on May 30, 1922 and presented it to President Warren G. Harding, who accepted it on behalf of the American people. Lincoln’s only remaining son, 79-year-old [...]
May 25, 2013 |
A selection of historic photos from the Library of Congress of Memorial Day observances.
Jozy Altidore continued his international streak Tuesday, scoring for a fourth straight match, to give the American
Monsoon torrential rains have cause havoc in northern India leading to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides as
Danielle Bradbery, a 16-year-old country-singing dynamo with pitch-perfect pipes, captured the Season 4 crown on &#
