On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock Music Festival opened on a plot of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the town of Bethel, upstate
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Each year, an average of two hurricanes strike the United States, leaving death and destruction in their wake. According to Eric Jay Dolin, author of
In what would later become Victory Day, an official announcement of Japan’s unconditional surrender to the Allies was made public on August 14, 1945. Even
A major blackout cut power in the eastern United States and parts of Canada on August 14, 2003. As of 4:10 pm ET, 21 power
Au moment où la bataille finale pour la ratification du 19e amendement eut lieu à Nashville, Tennessee, à l’été 1920, 72 ans s’étaient écoulés depuis
George Washington did not have a naming convention. As commander of the colonial forces of the American Revolution, he was an easy candidate to select
On the night of December 2, 1943, the Germans bombed a key Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking 17 ships and killing more than 1,000
Theodore Roosevelt, known for his boundless energy and daring, adventurous spirit, possessed one of the greatest personalities of any American president. But, he once said,
World War II ended six years and a day after Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, sparked the Second World War of the 20th