Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot five times by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for the U.S. Presidency in Laurel, MD. The shots left Wallace permanently paralyzed from the waist down.

Arthur Bremer is taken into custody by Maryland police moments
after Wallace was shot

George Wallace (in wheelchair) with Ted Kennedy

Winston Churchill

VE Day in New York’s Times Square.

Victory in Europe Day, also known as VE Day, commemorates the date when the
World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed
forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The formal
surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not until
9 May 1945. Celebrations erupted throughout the western world, from Moscow
to New York upon hearing of the surrender.

Famous photo of a Couple Kissing in Times Square on VE Day

May 7, 1937

The Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey in 1936, a
year prior to the crash

Radio announcer Herbert Morrison‘s recorded eyewitness report
from the landing field,which was broadcast the next day. Of the 97
people on board (36 passengers, 61 crew), there were 36 total 
fatalities, including one death among the ground crew.

Herbert Morrison

The Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on students during an anti-
Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed
and nine others were wounded.

The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands
of various counties in the state of Oklahoma. It started at high noon with an estimated
50,000 people lined up for their own piece the available two million acres. By the end  
of the day, both Oklahoma City and Guthrie had established cities of around 10,000 people in literally half a day.