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1906:
San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath
1930s:
Roosevelt Inaugurated (03/05/1933)
Lindberghs Fly North On Epic Ocean Trip To Blaze New Air Route, (07/10/1933)
Al Smith Hails End of Dry Law- End of Prohibition, (11/13/1933)
Zeppelin Explodes Scores Dead, Hindenberg, (05/10/1937)
Radio Station's 'Attack By Mars' Panics Thousands, (10/31/1938)
FDR Leads Nation In Protest Against Nazi Persecutions, (11/16/1938)
1940s:
FDR Asks Billions For Nat'l Defense And 50,000 Planes, (05/20/1940)
Roosevelt Warns Of Danger To U.S. If Nazis Win War, (12/31/1940)
F.D.R. Calls For National Unity In An All-Out Effort, (03/18/1941)
Aid Britain Says Hull, More Taxes for Defense, (04/29/1941)
'American Day' Fete Biggest Patriotic Meeting In History, (05/20/1941)
"Scrap Rubber Needed" - F.D.R, (06/15/1942)
Eve of Battle, D-Day, (06/06/1944)
Roosevelt To Run For 4th Term, (07/14/1944)
1945:
Air Smashes Devastate Germany, (03/12/1945)
Air Army Invades Germany, (04/05/1945)
Landings On Okinawa, (04/09/1945)
Germany Gives Up, (05/08/1945)
Beaten Nazis Sign Historic Surrender, (05/14/1945)
Air Forces Come Home Via Bomber, (05/28/1945)
Allies Sign Control Law For Germany, (06/14/1945)
Japanese Surrender, (08/23/1945)
1950s:
At the Geneva Summit Miss Universe parade, led by 1954 Miss Universe (07/18/1954)
H-Bomb Blast Exploded at 15,000 Feet Over Pacific, 1956/05/24
It's Ike and Nixon! (8/23/1956)
Eisenhower Re-Elected Cease Fire. Eden Orders Move In Egypt Invasion, Statue of Liberty 70th anniversary (11/05/1956)
First U.S. Satellite Launched! Egypt, Syria Merge In New Arab Republic (02/03/1958)
Nixon's Moscow Mission, (07/23/1959)
Nixon's Triumphal Return (8/6/1959)
1960:
Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) Swings In Congo (10/31)
Russia May Day Home (5/5/1960)
Kennedy Inaguration (1/1961)
Chimp into space (11/30/1961)
Kennedy Tour. Calls For U.S. Lead In Space (1962)
Space Triumph! John Glenn Flight Thrills World (02/22/1962)
The Red Threat. President Kennedy Orders Cuban Blockade, (10/22/1962)
The John Glenn Story (1963)
Khrushchev Resigns (10/15/1964)
New York World's Fair,(1964)
and Grauman's Chinese Theater (03/02/1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson Inauguration Highlights (01/25/1965)
Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare bill (1965)Peace March. Thousands Oppose Vietnam War, (04/18/1967)
2004:
Bush Victory Speech (11/03)
Tsunami Videos and News (12/26)
