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March 31, 1492: Ferdinand and Isabella issue the Alhambra...
March 31, 1492: Ferdinand and Isabella issue the Alhambra Decree.The Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslim rulers who had conquered it in the 8th century (and called it al-Andalus) ended...
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History will judge societies and governments — and their...
History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the...
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April 1, 1939: The Spanish Civil War ends. On March 28,...
April 1, 1939: The Spanish Civil War ends.On March 28, 1939, Spanish Republican forces surrendered Madrid to Francisco Franco and his Nationalist army, which had besieged the capital for, by then,...
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April 2, 1513: Juan Ponce de León lands at Florida. In March of...
April 2, 1513: Juan Ponce de León lands at Florida.In March of 1513, Juan Ponce de León, the Spanish governor of Puerto Rico, set out with three ships and two hundred men at the urging of Catholic...
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“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” Martin Luther...
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last speech, delivered the night before his death - April 3, 1968.
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April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated. The...
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.The night before his assassination, King delivered his last speech at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee; popularly known as “I’ve Been to the...
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Roger Ebert loved movies. Except for those he hated. Roger...
Gene Siskel and Roger EbertRoger Ebert loved movies.Except for those he hated.Roger Ebert, longtime film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and the first movie critic to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize,...
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Thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you...
Thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies.
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April 5, 1818: The Army of the Andes and Chilean rebels defeat...
April 5, 1818: The Army of the Andes and Chilean rebels defeat the Spanish at the Battle of Maipú.At this major battle of the Chilean War of Independence, forces led by Bernardo O’Higgins, José de San...
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Evening Landscape with Two Men Monk by the Sea Evening Evening on the Baltic Sea The Sea of Ice Moonrise Over the Sea Mountain Landscape Cloister Cemetery in the SnowMore Caspar David Friedrich
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April 9, 1959: NASA selects the “Mercury Seven”. Two...
April 9, 1959: NASA selects the “Mercury Seven”.Two years after the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, and the Space Race along with it, NASA chose from an elite...
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Tintern Abbey, the transept (1795) - J.M.W. Turner
Tintern Abbey, the transept (1795) - J.M.W. Turner
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April 10, 1930: Dolores Huerta is born. Dolores Huerta was born...
April 10, 1930: Dolores Huerta is born.Dolores Huerta was born in Dawson, New Mexico, and was raised by her mother (along with her two brothers) in Stockton, California, a major city in the state’s...
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April 11, 1945: Buchenwald concentration camp is...
April 11, 1945: Buchenwald concentration camp is liberated.Buchenwald was established in 1937 near Weimar, making it one of the earliest concentration camps constructed within German borders. During...
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April 12, 1864: The Fort Pillow Massacre takes place. The battle...
April 12, 1864: The Fort Pillow Massacre takes place.The battle over Fort Pillow, a fort in Tennessee situated in a strategic position on the Mississippi, ended in its capture by Confederate forces and...
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April 14, 1865: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated. Five days after...
April 14, 1865: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.Five days after the surrender and deactivation of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House (the effective end of the war), Abraham Lincoln...
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April 15, 1947: Jackie Robinson breaks the “baseball color...
April 15, 1947: Jackie Robinson breaks the “baseball color line”.Professional American baseball was established in 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War; while African-Americans did have...
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