Category: Human Interest
And Paris is Liberated!
On this day in 1944, after more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S….
Dolley Madison Saves George Washington
On this day in 1814, first lady Dolley Madison saves a portrait of George Washington from being looted and destroyed by British troops during the…
Czechoslovakia – From Hitler to the USSR
On this day in 1968, countless thousands of Czechs in Prague and New York City turn out in protest of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia…
Hawaii Statehood and Queen Liliuokalani – Aloha
On this day in 1959, the modern United States receives its crowning star when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Hawaii into the…
John White and Missing Roanoke Colonists
On this day in 1590, John White, the governor of the Roanoke Island colony in present-day North Carolina, returns from England with provisions to find…
Rudolf Hess – Suicide by Strangulation
On this day in 1987 Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s former deputy, is found strangled to death at Spandau Prison in Berlin at the…
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