On Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929, as much as $9 billion was lost on a volume of more than 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange alone. So much…
Oct 1, 2016 12:30 AM CDT
Crowds panic in the Wall Street district of Manhattan due to heavy trading on the stock market in 1929. AP Photo.
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Conspiracy theories have not undermined the Warren commission report on John F. Kennedy’s death.
Sep 1, 2016 12:40 AM CDT
Lee Harvey Oswald. AP Photo.
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Flawed naval intelligence in 1964 leads to increased, prolonged U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Aug 1, 2016 12:30 AM CDT
The USS Maddox. AP photo.
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After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the burden of rehabilitating a war-ravaged nation fell on Andrew Johnson. Though a Southern Democrat, Johnson had been tapped as Lincoln's running mate in…
Jul 1, 2016 12:40 AM CDT
The Senate acted as a court of impeachment for President Andrew Johnson. Photograph Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Shortly before noon on June 8, 1968, a British policeman stood at the passport desk at London's Heathrow Airport. Before him was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man in horn-rimmed glasses and…
Jun 1, 2016 12:30 AM CDT
AP Photos
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By February 1973, unrest among Lakota residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota was coming to a boil. Though in office barely a year, the tribe's elected chief,…
May 1, 2016 12:30 AM CDT
Dennis Banks. Photographs BY AP Photo/Jim Mone; AP Photo/Pool.
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Even before the end of World War II, the U.S. began to repurpose its wartime manufacturing for peacetime, and one of the first industries targeted was munitions production. As early…
Apr 1, 2016 12:30 AM CDT
Photographs Ccourtesy of Moore Memorial Public Library, Texas City, Texas
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On the morning of March 14, 1984, a team of federal regulators arrived at an inconspicuous strip mall in the eastern Dallas suburb of Mesquite to seize control of what…
Mar 1, 2016 12:30 AM CST
Chairman Spencer Blain at a congressional hearing on the failure of Empire Savings and Loan. DMN File Photo.
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Long before they became a symbol of national grief and anger, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in south Manhattan were tourist landmarks in New York City's skyline—the…
Feb 1, 2016 12:30 AM CST
AP Photo
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Queen Lili’uokalani. Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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In August 1967, rock promoter Brian Epstein was found in his London apartment dead from an accidental drug overdose. Only 32, Epstein was widely regarded as the man who discovered…
Dec 1, 2015 12:40 AM CST
The Fab Four’s first live performance in the United States, on the Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964, attracted 73 million viewers. AP Photos.
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In 1831, southeastern Virginia was weighted with the economic realities of a slave economy. Crop prices were down. The populations of slaves and free blacks were growing faster than the…
Nov 1, 2015 12:30 AM CDT
Photograph courtesy of Flickr creative commons
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In May 1692, only nine days after arriving in Boston, the newly appointed governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, William Phips, commissioned a court of oyer and terminer to adjudicate…
Oct 1, 2015 6:30 AM CDT
Photograph courtesy of Matteson, Tompkins Harrison /Detroit Publishing Co./library of congress
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Photograph by Bettmann/Corbis/AP Images
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