On May 19, 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt met to plot the cross-
Channel landing that would become D-Day—May 1, 1944.
That date proved to be a bit premature, as bad weather became
a factor.
SANDY KOZEL
FEEDING TUBE REMOVED ON THIS DAY IN 1990.
Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman whose condition sparked an epic legal, medical and political battle
that gripped America, died 13 days after her feeding tube
was removed by the wishes of her husband and the orders
of several courts.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left) dining with President Roosevelt.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington,
D.C. for a series of meetings with President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt on a unified Anglo-American war strategy and a
future peace.
Now that the United States was directly involved in both the
Pacific and European wars, it was incumbent upon both Great
Britain and America to create and project a unified front.
Toward that end, Churchill and Roosevelt created a combined
general staff to coordinate military strategy against both
Germany and Japan and to draft a future joint invasion of the
Continent.
SANDY KOZEL
Hitler (seated second from left) poses with members of his
first cabinet in the chancellery.
Niagara Movement members began meeting on the Canadian side of the
Niagara Falls on this day in 1905. This all-African American group of
scholars, lawyers and businessmen came together for three days to
create what would soon become a powerful post-slavery Black rights
organization. Although it only lasted five years, the Niagara Movement
was an influential precursor to the civil rights movement of the mid-20th
century.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
(February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963)
William Monroe Trotter (1872 – 1934)
