The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the
pride of Nazi Germany, burst into flames upon touching its
mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers
and crew-members, on May 6, 1937.
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The Hindenburg above New York City before the disaster.
On May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fired their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another. The tragedy was a watershed
moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Vietnam, and
further galvanized the anti-war movement.
Duane Eddy, the pioneering rock guitarist known
for instrumental tracks “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter
Gunn”, has died.
According to reports in the Arizona Republic, the
Grammy-winning musician died peacefully on Tuesday
(30 April), surrounded by his family at his home in
Franklin, Tennessee.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in 1994, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum
in 2008.
On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters
in Berlin, Adolf Hitler committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide
capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s
dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. He was 56.
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945)
Hitler with his long-term mistress, Eva Braun (33). The two
were married the day before his death.
July 1947 photo of the rear entrance to the Führerbunker in the
garden of the Reich Chancellery.
The fledgling United States Marine Corps proved its dauntless
courage with a "miracle" victory in the Battle of Derna on the
shores of Tripoli in North Africa on this day in history, April 27,
1805.
The successful attack against overwhelming numbers on the
port city in present-day Libya, a stronghold of pirates who
spent years attacking United States ships at sea, was the
climactic battle of the First Barbary War (1801-05).
The victory is immortalized in a patriotic American anthem.
1st. Lt. Presley O’Bannon raised the American
flag during the Battle of Derna.
The Derna Plaque is part of "Defending the New Republic
1775-1865" display at the National Museum of the Marine
Corps in Virginia on May 25, 2010. This plaque was made
to honor a battle to take a fort from the Barbary pirates
off the northern coast of Africa. The Derna Plaque was discovered 175 years after the battle.
