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....
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She Is Always Seventeen
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
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