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Feb

THESE PAST EVENTS MADE TODAYS HISTORY

Disgraceful': AP slammed for sacking reporter amid Palestine row | Media News | Al Jazeera
CARLATA BRADLEY

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Jan

PAST EVENTS THAT MADE CURRENT HISTORY

Dissecting the A.P. Phone Log Seizure
MIKE GRACIA

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Dec

PAST EVENTS THAT MADE HISTORY

                          Associated Press Teletype Machine Photograph by Mark Williamson / Science Photo Library - Pixels
ED DANAHUE

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Sep

FIRST BOMBING ON THE U.S. MAINLAND

BROOKINGS OREGON Lookout Air Raids Japanese Incendiary Bombing 1942 Newspaper | eBay

Launching from the Japanese sub I-25 (like below) Nobuo
Fujita piloted his light aircraft over the state of Oregon near
Brookings and firebombed Mount Emily, starting a forest fire.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately called for a news
blackout for the sake of morale. No long-term damage was
done, and Fujita eventually went home to train navy pilots for
the rest of the war.

It was the first-ever aerial bombing on the US mainland.

Nobuo Fujita standing by his Yokosuka E14Y "Glen"
seaplane.

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Aug

BRITISH TROOPS SET FIRE TO WHITE HOUSE

When the British Burned Washington, D.C. | HISTORY

1814 Washington DC Fire

On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United
States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and
burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on
the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1813.

When the British arrived at the White House, they found that
President James Madison and his first lady Dolley had already
fled to safety in Maryland.

Soldiers reportedly sat down to eat a meal made of leftover food
from the White House scullery using White House dishes and
silver before ransacking the presidential mansion and setting
it ablaze.

Although President Madison and his wife were able to return
to Washington only three days later when British troops had
moved on, they never again lived in the White House.

Madison served the rest of his term residing at the city’s Octagon
House. It was not until 1817 that newly elected president James
Monroe moved back into the reconstructed building.