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On This Day, Aug. 26: 19th Amendment goes into effect
United Press International via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMore than 25,000 women take to New York City's Fifth Avenue on October 23, 1915, advocating for...
How Democrats Hope to Limit Protests at the DNC in Chicago
Time via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoDemonstrators march in protest of Chicago's plan to host the Democratic National Convention on March...
TV host 'Skipper Ed' always reminded Jacksonville children: 'Mind your manners'
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBack in 1961, Ed McCullers didn't set out to become "Skipper Ed," the avuncular host of a children's...
The Tragic Story of 'Sky King' Richard Russell
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 1 month agoIn 2018, Richard Russell made news headlines for stealing — and subsequently crashing — a 76-seat passenger plane straight out of Seattle Tacoma International Airport.
Opinion: Dump Biden? Here's why nominating another Democrat for president would be a mistake
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDespite concerns about his age, polling against Trump and the "uncommitted" movement in the Michigan...
RFK and history pass through Muncie 56 years ago as MLK dies in Memphis
The Star Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMUNCIE, Ind. — More than half a century ago, 56 years to be exact, Muncie and Indianapolis became...
Clarence Page: A new Chicago mayor faces similar issues to the ones that dogged Richard J. Daley in...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWhen a friend reminded me that it’s almost time for the Democratic National Convention, I wanted to say, “That’s OK, I’m good with the last one.” But, I didn’t. I’m too much of a political junkie ...
Henry Kissinger, diplomat who helped to reshape the world, dies at 100
Politico via Yahoo News· 6 months agoHenry Kissinger, a ruthless practitioner of the art of realpolitik who had an outsize impact on global events and who won a premature Nobel Peace Prize for ending a war that kept going, has ...
Today in History: May 25, police kill George Floyd
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoOn May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was killed when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for about 9 1/2 minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and pleading ...
