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Apollo 13 lifted off on April 11, 1970, bound for the Moon. On board were Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise. Two days later, an oxygen tank exploded. The objective changed from landing on the moon to getting the crew back safely. (Photo: )
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Wernher von Braun was the man who convinced President Kennedy that we can beat the Russians to the moon. He cut his teeth building rockets for the Nazi regime. Look for him in , premiering on across three nights beginning July 8 →
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When was first published — on April 10, 1925 — the Jazz Age was in full swing. Fitzgerald himself called it a time when "the parties were bigger, the pace was faster, the buildings were higher, the morals looser."
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British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, set sail from Southampton, England on April 10, 1912. Aboard were approximately 2,224 passengers and crew, bound for New York City.
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A young marcher caught our eye in footage from right after Martin Luther King's assassination. With no idea who he was, we shared on Facebook. It only took a few hours to hear, "That's my brother PHIL ANTHONY HART..." Happy !
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Brothers Alfred, Charles, Al, Otto and John Ringling brought family panache to the circus life. Their operation began as a small regional circus, but before long they became the largest circus in history. Happy !
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Operation Paperclip brought 1,600 of Germany's most accomplished scientists to the United States. Among them was Wernher von Braun: a former-Nazi who became a US citizen in 1955, and an invaluable part of America's new space program.
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Overruling President Johnson's veto, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was enacted on April 9. It granted rights of citizenship to all men "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."
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Pilates may be trendy today, but its origins actually trace back to WWI. Who was Mr. Pilates, and how did he develop the fitness regimen that remains popular 100 years later? A collaboration with :
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"As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this." Singer, actor, athlete, activist, and more, Paul Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey on April 9, 1898. (Photo: )
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NASA introduced its first astronaut class — the Mercury 7 — on April 9, 1959. They were Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Gordon Cooper. (Photo: )
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Marian Anderson planned to sing at Constitution Hall, but was blocked on the basis of her race. In response, supporters, including Eleanor Roosevelt, helped arrange a public concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939.
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Nearly two decades before the NBA, a team of African American basketball players from Chicago began touring the Midwest as the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Congress voted to approve the Works Progress Administration on April 8, 1935. Of all of FDR’s New Deal programs, the WPA is the most famous because it affected so many people’s lives. It employed 8.5 million people.
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Mary Pickford, "the Girl with the Golden Curls," was born Gladys Louise Smith in 1892, in Toronto, Canada.
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This First Lady was noted for her support of breast cancer awareness and the Equal Rights Amendment. Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Bloomer Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 8, 1918. (Photo: )
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Happy ! Drink up the long history of America's favorite alcoholic beverage — from the Founding Fathers, through waves of immigration, Prohibition, to the craft brews of today.
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Billie Holiday, "Lady Day," was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 7, 1915. (Photo: )
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The Post Office Department issued a stamp featuring Booker T. Washington on April 7, 1940 as part of its Famous Americans Series. It was the nation's first stamp to honor an African American. (Photo: )
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas was born on April 7, 1890. Her book, The Everglades: River of Grass, forever defined the South Florida wetlands as essential to both wildlife and people.
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