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- 10851: The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
- ... m. and the other at Miami International Airport at 8:20 a.m. Both planes were badly damaged and their tanks were nearly empty. On the front page of The New York Times the next day, a picture of one of the B-26s was shown along with a picture of one of the pilots cloaked in a baseball hat and hiding behind dark sunglasses, his name was withheld. A sense ...
- 10852: Aids
- ... AIDS in the United States began to change. Terminally ill people treated with combinations of protease inhibitors and older drugs -- a medication "cocktail" that often required them to take dozens of pills and capsules a day at precisely timed intervals -- suddenly began to regain their health, and the statistics of AIDS in the United States began to change dramatically. In 1996 the death rate from AIDS in the US was 23 ...
- 10853: Teddy Roosevelt
- ... did a great deal to expand the powers of the Chief Executive. Trust Busting The first major issue that would command the full attention of the new President and much of the news of the day was the issue of trust busting. In 1895 the Supreme Court laid the groundwork for TR's battle by ruling in the Knight case that the American Sugar Refining Company's monopoly of sugar production ...
- 10854: Slavery - Underground Rail Road
- ... the slaves went up very quickly. Abolition Societies began to form, and along with religious groups became active in helpin gslaves to freedom. The "Railroad" beggan to take shape. A shape that is to this day very hard to describe. Traks were laid to aide the slaves to freedom. People talked in secrecy to make safe paths for the slaves to run on. These were the tracks. Letters were sent that ...
- 10855: Slavery - The Anti-Slavery Effort
- ... from Harpers Ferry, and on Oct. 16, 1859, they seized the town and occupied the federal arsenal. The town was soon surrounded by local militia, and federal troops under Robert E. Lee arrived the next day. Ten of Brown's army died in the ensuing battle, and Brown himself was wounded. Arrested and charged with treason, Brown was hung on Dec. 2, 1859. William Lloyd Garrison was another abolitionist, however he ...
- 10856: Slavery - Events That Effected Slavery
- ... and the pursuit of Happiness" Thomas Jefferson's words were not correct. Not all men were created equal and these men were slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the United States for centuries before the present day. This was the most inhumane treatment any man could go through. The following report will express the impact of slavery on the history of the united states of America. The Earliest Slaves in America In ...
- 10857: Alcohol
- ... by my generation. Should I be told what I can and cant drink? I was reading Time Magazine recently and a recent study has been released which states that a glass of wine a day has been shown to improve liver function, lower cholesterol and lessen the chance of heart disease (Time June 1999). Now if alcohol sale or production was abolished, how could have that study been done. Especially ...
- 10858: Roswell
- ... which large pieces of wreckage protruded. Once inside he encountered a young nurse whom which he knew, at the same instance, he was noticed by military police which escorted him from the building. The next day he met up with the nurse at a coffee shop. She explained that she had been called upon to help two doctors disect to small bodies, which she thought to be alien. She drew a ...
- 10859: Roaring Twenties
- ... the Trees, and In Our Time. Many of Hemingway's finest works presented the attitudes and experiences of the era's so called "last generation." Americans had a hunger for news in the Twenties. Every day they would flock to the newsstand for the latest information. They would find the information they needed from various newspapers and periodicals. From the New York Times they got top-notch foreign correspondence. In the ...
- 10860: Richard M. Nixon
- ... in 1973. Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as Vice President. Faced with what seemed almost certain impeachment, Nixon announced on August 8, 1974, that he would resign the next day to begin "that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America." Nixon retired from public life for some years and concentrated on writing a series of books on political affairs. Nixon eventually began ...
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