Category: Human Interest
Ike’s Operation Overlord and Hitler’s End
On this day in 1944, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) by FDR, serving in a…
The Man Who Changed a Culture is Born – MLK Jr.
On this day in 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born to a Baptist minister and his church organist wife in Atlanta, GA. Becoming a…
The Search
The Search is a 1947 (released in 1948) Swiss-American film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his…
George Wallace, Segregation and the Racial Divide
On this day in 1963, George C. Wallace, four-time governor of Alabama and four-time presidential hopeful, is sworn in as the 45th Governor of Alabama….
Douglas Wilder Grandson of Slaves Becomes Governor
On this day in 1990 Douglas Wilder becomes the first-ever African American elected governor of a US state, and the first governor of color in…
The Nelson Touch
On this day in 1806, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB, and Britain’s greatest naval hero is interred at St….
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