It was on this day in 2005.
On this day in 1996, President Bill Clinton signed legislation that
ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work
from recipients.
It was on this day in 1989.
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It was on this day in 1977.
David Richard Berkowitz (Richard David Falco) turned 65 June 1st.
It was on this day in 1969.
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, and Leslie
Van Houten walking to court where a Los Angeles jury found them,
along with Charles, Manson, guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy for the Tate-LaBianca killings.
Cult leader Charles Manson (center).
Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio on this day in 1921. He
was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down and avoided
being seen using his wheelchair in public, but his disability was
well known and became a major part of his image.
Roosevelt (second from left) supporting himself on crutches in 1924.
In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt (39) is
pictured in his leg braces with wife Eleanor to his
right. In 1938, he founded the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, leading to the development
of polio vaccines.
The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the U.S. Congress on
this day in 1846. The "Nation’s Attic" was made possible by $500,000 given by scientist Joseph Smithson.
On this day in 1988, President Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were interned by the
U.S. government during World War II.
The first prisoners arrive in March of 1942 at the Japanese evacuee community established in Owens Valley in Manzanar, Calif.
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On this day in 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. It came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. An estimated 74,000
people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14.
On this day in 1974, President Richard Nixon formally resigned and
Gerald R. Ford (below) took his place, becoming the 38th president
of the United States.
President and Mrs. Nixon left the White House after his resignation.
It was on this day in 1969.
From left: Charles Manson and his cult family.
Charles Milles Manson (Maddox)
(November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017)
"Walden" was published by Henry David Thoreau on this
day in 1854.
Henry David Thoreau
(July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)
Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995)
As one of its founders, Jerry Garcia performed with the Grateful Dead
for their entire thirty-year career (1965–1995). He was well known for
his distinctive guitar playing and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone‘s
"100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Garcia was staying in a drug
rehabilitation facility when he died of a heart attack at the age of
53.
MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 1971, United States President Nixon announced he
would visit the People’s Republic of China to seek a "normalization
of relations."
President Nixon (left) shakes hands with Premier Chou En-lai of the People’s Republic of China.
Fashion Designer Gianni Versace was slain on this day in 1997.
The suspect in the murder of Versace.
Blood on the steps of Gianni Versace’s Ocean Drive mansion in
Miami Beach.
In Seattle, WA, on this day in 1916, Pacific Aero Products was
incorporated by William Boeing. The aviation giant was later
renamed Boeing Co.
Famous Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn was born on this
day in 1606.
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On this day in 1934, Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying
the SA and bringing to power the SS in the "Night of the Long
Knives."
America’s food and drug safety took a big step forward with the
Pure Food and Drug Act on this day in 1906.
The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth on this day in
1971. The three cosmonauts (left) were found dead inside.
Margaret Mitchell (above) with her book, "Gone with the Wind,"
that was published on this day 1936.
The 1939 epic historical romance film, adapted from the Margaret
Mitchell novel.
On this day in 1994, The U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped
Tonya Harding (left) of the 1994 national championship and banned
her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan (right).
Nancy Kerrigan just after the attack.
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010)
Twentieth-century African-American singer and actress Lena Horne
famously sang "Stormy Weather," won a Grammy Award for a 1981
album entitled Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, and appeared
in film versions of The Wiz, Broadway Rhythm, and Ziegfeld Follies.
Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the
1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died of
congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010, at the age of 92.
