June 1st,1967We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, we hope you will enjoy the show The Beatles release whats considered one of rocks greatest albums, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, the albums complex and experimental songs make it a...
May 31st, 1889In one of America's worst natural disasters, water sweeps through Johnstown, Pennsylvania after a dam breaks. The flood kills more than 2200 people and destroys more than 1600 homes. 1962In Israel, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is...
May 28th,1934A medical miracle that later turns tragic in Ontario, Canada where the Dionne quintuplets are born. Ontarios provincial government deems the girls parents to be unfit and puts the quints in a specially-built hospital. Thats where the ide...
May 27th, 1937The newly completed Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California. For the bridges first day, only pedestrians were allowed onto the span. Louis Riogiado helped build the famous suspension...
May 26th, 1940During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops begin their evacuation from Dunkirk, France. They escape Nazi Germany's advancing forces, making their way across the English Channel to Britain. 1868In Washington, President A...
May 23rd, 1945In Germany, top Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide in Allied custody, weeks after the Third Reich's fall in World War Two. As head of Nazi police forces, Himmler oversaw the killing of millions of Jews in the holocaust and c...
May 19th, 1962To you, happy birthday Mr. President.Actress Marilyn Monroe performs a sultry rendition of Happy Birthday for President John F. Kennedy. It happens during a Democratic Party fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden while Kennedy...
May 18th,1980Its erupting like it never has before, I am sure. Cause from where Im standing, I cant see the top of the mountain, but I see the whole eruption coming from it, its big.In Washington state, Mount St. Helens explodes, blasting away the to...
May 17th, 1954In Washington, the US Supreme Court strikes down racially segregated public schools as separate and unequal. The courts ruling in Brownversus Board of Education of Topeka, fuels Americas civil rights movement and eventual end of illegal...
May 16th,1868In Washington, the US Senate fails by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson on the first article of impeachment against him. Johnson is eventually acquitted on all charges prompted by his clashes with the post Civil War Congress a...
