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Also on this day in 2020Â South Korean Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip urged vigilance to maintain hard-won gains against the virus and calle…
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Everyone escaped to the muddy, isolated safety of Grand Tower Island.
In 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, and more events that happened on this day in history.
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A trash truck cracks the Poplar Street Bridge, causing a headache that lasts for weeks. It would take until July 30 for all the lanes or the h…
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How a blaze on steamboat sparked an inferno that changed the face of downtown St. Louis.
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision which held that racially segregated public schoo…
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In 1970, Hank Aaron gets an infield single off Cincinnati’s Wayne Simpson for his 3,000th hit. See more sports moments from this date in history:
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The fair raised money to give Union soldiers hospital care, clean garments and warm meals.
A Coast Guard inspector's hammer goes right through the thin, corroded hull of the S.S. Admiral. Its owners announced cruises would end that year.
In 1988, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released a report declaring nicotine was addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine, and more ev…
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Danny Trejo, David Boreanaz, Janet Jackson, Megan Fox, Pierce Brosn…
In 1975, U.S. forces invaded the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and captured the American merchant ship Mayaguez, which had been seized by the K…
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Andy Murray, Chazz Palminteri, Emmitt Smith, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Mad…
In 2003, the three-year championship reign of the Los Angeles Lakers ends at the hands of Tim Duncan, San Antonio Spurs. See more sports momen…
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Also on this day in 2020, the Food Bank for Catalonia, the region around Barcelona, Spain, said that food requests had increased by 30% in the…
On May 14, 1905, John Joseph Glennon was installed as the new Archbishop of St. Louis.
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In 1961, Freedom Riders were attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama, and more events that happened on this day in history.
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In 1967, Mickey Mantle hits his 500th home run, a shot off Stu Miller that lifts the New York Yankees to a 6-5 victory over the Baltimore Orio…
The track was fast, and the weather was delightfully cool.
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