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On this day in 1960, U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
On this day in 1935, Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindberghs baby (below). Hauptmann was found guilt and executed.
Aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)
Capt. McBroom was the Pilot of United
Airlines Flight 173. He said he tried to
aim the plane at a dark spot.
A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 similar to the one involved in the
crash.
The crash site as it looks today.
ROSS SIMPSON
The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" ‘Twas
the night before Christmas…") was published on this day in 1823.
ROSS SIMPSON
Romania’s hard-line Communist ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, was overthrown in a popular uprising on this day in 1989.
Foreign protesters campaign against the Ceaucescu regime.
Ceausescu and his wife Elena attempted to flee Romania but were
caught and executed in Targoviste on Christmas Day.
The above photo shows the wall where the two were shot. The site
became part of a museum in 2013.
Richard Colvin Reid, also known as the Shoe Bomber, is a British terrorist who attempted to detonate an explosive device packed
into his shoes while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to
Miami on this day in 2001.
One of Richard Reid’s explosive shoes.
ED DANAHUE
The "Mayflower", and its passengers, pilgrims from England, landed
at Plymouth Rock, MA. on this day in 1620.
Map of Native American Tribes and Pilgrim Colonies.
The first church service at Plymouth.
On this day in 1988, 270 people were killed when a Pan Am Boeing
747, Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack.
The destruction caused by debris from the explosion on board Pan
Am Flight 103 over the village of Lockerbie.
