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The End of the Third Reich
On this day in 1945, 76 years ago, pandemonium and celebrations erupt throughout the world from Moscow to Los Angeles upon the formal surrender of…
The Skipper of Freedom 7
On May 5th, 1961, Cmdr. Alan Shepard, Jr. became the first American in space when his Freedom 7 spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral. It…
The Thousand-year Reich’s Inglorious End
On April 30th, 1945, Adolph Hitler kills himself by gunshot in his Führerbunker in Berlin with his new bride Eva Braun, who took her own…
Hands Across the Elbe: Pax Orbis Incipit
On April 24th, 1945, Soviet and American troops meet at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany, marking the truest death knell of the Third…
The Deadly Consequence of Political Extremism
On April 19th, 1995, a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City kills 168 people and injures…
Jack-Jack and the Baseball Beanstalk
On April 15th, 1945, Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier and the great game changed forever when Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey secured him…
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