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May

HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Irving Berlin
(May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989)

Irving Berlin was a American composer, songwriter
and lyricist. His music forms a great part of the
Great American Songbook.

He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major
hits, which made him famous before he turned thirty.

During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500
songs, including the scores for 20 original Broadway
shows and 15 original Hollywood films, with his songs
nominated eight times for Academy Awards.

Many songs became popular themes and anthems,
including "Alexander’s Ragtime Band", "Easter Parade",
"Puttin’ on the Ritz", "Cheek to Cheek", and
"White Christmas",

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Oct

VIETNAM WAR PROTEST ON THIS DAY IN 1967

View of anti-Vietnam war protestors around the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on 21 October 1967

In Washington, D.C. nearly 100,000 people gather to protest the American war
effort in Vietnam. More than 50,000 of the protesters marched to the Pentagon
to ask for an end to the conflict. The protest was the most dramatic sign of
waning U.S. support for President Lyndon Johnson’s war in Vietnam. Polls
taken in the summer of 1967 revealed that, for the first time, American
support for the war had fallen below 50 percent.

Outside the Pentagon during the 1967 demonstrations.