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On this day in U.S. history, in 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law officially declaring “In God We Trust” to ...
Lincoln was voted as Nebraska’s Capitol on July 29, 1867 after a vote by the State Capital Commission. The commission was ...
MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On July 30, 1948, the fund created by businessman Julius Rosenwald to build schools across the South for ...
Lewis and Clark met with the Otoe Nation in what is now Fort Atkinson, Nebraska. There the pair also recorded their first ...
Every day has a history attached to it. Have you ever wondered what stories hide behind today's date? So, what happened on July 22? On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln first shared his ...
Spain sent seven ships to France to relocate Acadian families from France to Spanish-held Louisiana in 1785. The first of ...
The festival, held July 24-26, at Solberg Airport in Readington, set single-day attendance records on July 24-25 and the ...
White Sox starting pitcher Ray Hebert, who would eventually win 20 games on the season, was named as a last-minute ...
ON THIS DAY IN 1903, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “ROME ― The first of the great ceremonies of Pope Leo’s funeral commenced today, when the body lay in state in the throne room of the ...
ON THIS DAY IN 1953, the Eagle reported, “Some 2,000,000 straphanging commuters will have to queue up for their transit tokens tomorrow in the first big test of the 15-cent fare changeover.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted ...
On July 28, 2010, a plane flying in intense fog and rain to Islamabad crashed in the Himalayan foothills near its destination, killing all 152 people aboard.