April 15, 1912 -– The RMS Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage
It is probably the best known maritime tragedy in history. The RMS Titanic, the largest passnger ship afloat and pride...
December 19, 2019
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November 22, 1963 — U.S. President John F Kennedy is assassinated
One of the defining events of its era, the assassination of President Kennedy remains a remarkably controversial one, even today....
July 24, 2017
March 18, 1965 — Gene Seski crashes a truckload of bananas in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Gene Seski was an experienced truck driver who, on the 18th of March, 1965, was driving a semi-trailer load of...
June 4, 2017
April 4, 1968 — Martin Luther King is assassinated
Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, after years of non-violent struggle for civil rights. By 1967,...
January 14, 2017
August 15, 1969 — Woodstock
Woodstock Music & Art Fair (informally, Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival) was a music festival, billed as “An Aquarian Exposition”,...
November 14, 2016
June 17, 1972 — The Watergate Burglary goes awry
On the morning of June 17, 1972, a young journalist named Bob Woodward was working the court beat in Washington...
May 4, 2016
August 9, 1974 — Nixon resigns the Presidency in disgrace
After the long, slow death of a thousand cuts that was the Watergate scandal, Nixon’s decision to resign from the...
November 19, 2015
April 9, 1976 — Phil Ochs dies
Born on December 19, 1940, Phil Ochs would become one of the best known protest singers in America (although he...
October 14, 2015
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