On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police begin an operation against MOVE, a Black separatist group that had assembled a large arsenal. By the end of the botched confrontation, the police drop a bomb, leveling a city block, killing 11 people and incinerating 61 homes.

On May 8th, in 1980, the World Health Organization announced that smallpox had been eradicated. The deadly disease had been devastating populations for centuries, so a global vaccination campaign was launched in 1967, and the final case of the disease was recorded a decade later.

In May 7, 1945, a German delegation went to U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims, France, and, in the presence of Soviet as well as U.S., British, and French delegations, signed the surrender documents that ended the European phase of World War II.

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The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crew members on May 6, 1937.

On the fifth of May in 1862, Mexico repelled the French forces of Napoleon III at the Battle of Puebla, a victory that became a symbol of resistance to foreign domination and is now celebrated as a national holiday, Cinco de Mayo.

On May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students and wounding nine. The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Vietnam

On May second, 2011, Osama bin Laden—the founder of al-Qaeda and mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks, notably the September 11 attacks in 2001—was killed by U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

On May 1, 1960, While on a reconnaissance flight deep inside the Soviet Union, a U.S. U-2 plane was shot down and its pilot—Francis Gary Powers, who worked for the CIA—was taken prisoner; the resulting confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union became known as the U-2 Incident.

On April 29, 1945, Conscientious objector Desmond Doss saves 75 wounded soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa at Hacksaw Ridge. Later depicted in the Oscar-winning film "Hacksaw Ridge"

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On April 26, 1954, the Salk polio vaccine trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method

In memoriam Pat Tillman, who gave up his pro football career to enlist in the U.S. Army after the terrorist attacks of September 11, is killed by friendly fire while serving in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004.

On April 19, 1775, “The Shot Heard Round the World” - The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought, marking the beginning of the American Revolution.

On April 17, 1945, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash commandeers over half a ton of uranium at Strassfurt, Germany, in an effort to prevent the Soviets from developing an A-bomb.

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On April 14, 2003, Researchers announced the end of the Human Genome Project; over the course of 13 years, they had successfully determined, stored, and rendered publicly available the sequences of almost all the genetic content of the human genome.

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For the first time in over 50 years, the presidents of the United States and Cuba meet on April 11, 2015. Barack Obama and Raúl Castro, President of Cuba, shook hands and expressed a willingness to put one of the world’s highest-profile diplomatic feuds in the past.

On April 10, 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by philanthropist and diplomat Henry Bergh, 54

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.

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Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee

On April 3rd, 1968, At an event for the Memphis sanitation workers' strike, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his “Mountaintop Speech.” The following day he was assassinated.

On March 30, 1870, Following its ratification by the requisite three-fourths of the states, the 15th Amendment, granting African American men the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution.

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On March 27, 1915, American domestic Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was placed under a quarantine on North Brother Island, New York City, that lasted until her death in 1938; a typhoid carrier, she was allegedly responsible for multiple outbreaks of typhoid fever.

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On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.

On March 25, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights activists completed their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; two previous marches had been halted by local police.

On March 23, 2010, US President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nicknamed 'Obamacare', expanding the availability and affordability of health care insurance

On March 22, 2019, Robert Mueller delivered his report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to attorney general, William Barr; it stated that “while this report does not conclude that the President [Donald Trump] committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”

On March 21, 1965, American civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr., began a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama

On March 20, 2023, UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says world has less than a decade to stop catastrophic warming: must reduce greenhouse gases by half by 2030, and cease adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by early 2050s

On March 19th, 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush ordered air strikes on Baghdad, thus launching the Iraq War to oust dictator Saddam Hussein, who was believed (wrongly) to be manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.

On March 18, 1942, the War Relocation Authority is created to “Take all people of Japanese descent into custody, surround them with troops, prevent them from buying land, and return them to their former homes at the close of the war.”

On March 17, 461, St. Patrick dies at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland. Today, the late Christian missionary, bishop and apostle of Ireland is honored with the holiday of St. Patrick’s Day on the anniversary of his death.

On March 14th, 1973, Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp

Shortly after midnight on March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, is shot and killed by police in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment after officers busted through her door attempting to execute an erroneous search warrant. #sayhername

On March 10th in 1933, soon after Adolf Hitler became chancellor, the first concentration camp in Germany opened at Dachau, where at least 32,000 people would die from disease, malnutrition, physical oppression, and execution.

On March 9th, 1964, the Ford Motor Company began production of the Mustang, eventually evolving to the sexiest machine created by humanity; the 1969 Boss 429

On March 6, 1831, Author Edgar Allan Poe was court-martialed and dismissed from West Point military academy for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders

Harassed by a mob, British troops on March 5th in 1770 opened fire, killing Crispus Attucks and four others in the Boston Massacre, an event that galvanized anti-British feelings in the lead-up to the American Revolution.

On March 4, 1918, Private Albert Gitchell of the U.S. Army reports to the hospital at Fort Riley, Kansas. Soon after, over 100 soldiers had reported similar symptoms, marking what are believed to be the first cases in the historic influenza pandemic of 1918, later known as Spanish flu

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On March 3, 1931, The Star-Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, was officially adopted as the national anthem of the United States by act of Congress.

A full nine months before Rosa Parks's famous act of civil disobedience, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin is arrested on March 2, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus.

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