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Oct 29, 2009 · Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. The day after the attack, President Franklin D ...
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- The COVID-19 Pandemic: 1,000,000. Olivia Grant (R) hugs her grandmother, Mary Grace Sileo through a plastic drop cloth hung up on a homemade clothes line during Memorial Day Weekend in Wantagh, New York, May 24, 2020.
- The US Civil War: 750,000 (Estimated) Several dead Confederate artillery men lie outside Dunker Church after the Battle of Antietam. The awful death toll of the Civil War may never fully be known.
- The HIV/AIDS Epidemic: 700,000. AIDS patient Deotis McMather, shown asleep in bed at San Francisco Generals AIDS ward, circa 1983. In 1981, doctors began reporting mysterious cases of rare types of pneumonia and cancers among predominately gay men in New York and California.
- The 1918 Flu Pandemic: 675,000. Patients of the 1918 flu. The 1918 flu claimed an unfathomable 50 to 100 million victims worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 Americans.
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Nov 24, 2009 · This Day In History: 09/11/2001 - Attack on America. At approximately 8:46 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashes into the ...
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Jan 25, 2018 · Dunkirk is a small town on the coast of France that was the scene of a massive military campaign during World War II. During the Battle of Dunkirk from May 26 to June 4, 1940, some 338,000 British ...
Nov 18, 2009 · Print Page. On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, immediately killing ...
Oct 29, 2009 · Tet Offensive Begins. On the early morning of January 30, 1968, Viet Cong forces attacked 13 cities in central South Vietnam, just as many families began their observances of the lunar new year ...
Nov 5, 2009 · On September 7, 1940, 300 German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. This bombing “ blitzkrieg ” (lightning war) would continue until May 1941. After the ...
