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If you had been born before 1925….
ArticlesOn July 11, you could have been present when Dwight Eisenhower was nominated to be President, 1952 You could...
CONTINUE READING →July 9 1943: American medicine comes to Sicily
ArticlesOn July 9, 1943, American and allied forces began the invasion of Europe in World War II at Gela,...
CONTINUE READING →July 8: History that should have been fiction
ArticlesIn 1959, Dale Ruis, an Army major, and Chester Ovnand, a master sergeant, volunteered for a little-known unit called...
CONTINUE READING →July 7 “The Dog Did Nothing”
ArticlesSherlock Holmes is more real than his creator, Sir Author Conan Doyle. Holmes books and stories continue to sell...
CONTINUE READING →Today, July 6: Before Rosa Parks…
ArticlesJuly 6, 1944: One month to the day after the Allied landings in Normandy, D-Day, Second Lieutenant Jackie Robinson...
CONTINUE READING →Today, July 5: Honor our veterans….
ArticlesOn July 5, 1932 veterans of World War I blocked the steps to the United States Capitol in futile...
CONTINUE READING →July 4: Was it worth the risk?
ArticlesHow much did your freedom cost you today? A bag of fireworks? A flag put up alongside your front...
CONTINUE READING →July 3: 1942 A world in turmoil
ArticlesIn Paris, 1942, German authorities rounded up prominent Jews, including author Irène Némirovsky, who on July 3 wrote to...
CONTINUE READING →This Day: July 2 The Sun Also Sets
Articles“In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the...
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