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Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles and some wearing bullet crowns, participated in a commitment ceremony today at World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, in Newfoundland, Pa. The event led a nearby school to cancel classes for the day. Photos @jacquelinelarma
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75 years today, AP photographer Joe Rosenthal captured what may be the most famous photograph of World War II: an image of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.
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60 years ago today, Ruby Bridges became the first Black student at an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, walking past crowds screaming racist slurs. U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Nov. 14, 1960.
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Ryan Gosling reacts as the true winner of best picture "Moonlight" is announced at the #Oscars.
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80 years ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health, testifies during a hearing on Project Bioshield on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 4, 2003.
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99 years ago today, actress Betty White was born in Oak Park, Ill.
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A fox walks past 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. | Photo Kin Cheung
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Sixty years ago today, the Little Rock Nine became a symbol of heroism in the throes of racial progress:
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45 years ago today, Arthur Ashe became the first Black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy Connors, 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4.
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#OTD in 1921, the remains of an unidentified American service member were interred in a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in a ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is seen in Arlington Cemetery in 1937.
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Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. lays her head on casket during a memorial service at the Arizona Capitol today in Phoenix. | Photo Ross D. Franklin
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For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed the dawn of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest stars were just beginning to glow. @NSF
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OTD in 1947, "The Diary of a Young Girl," the journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding from Nazis during WWII, was published.
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An AP photographer was in the audience during the attack on Russia's ambassador to Turkey - the latest here:
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The Capitol is seen at sunrise, in Washington, Oct. 10, 2017. #APPhoto J. Scott Applewhite
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Fifty years ago today, Shirley Chisholm, a Democratic New York State assemblywoman, became the first black woman elected to Congress. Photo John Rooney
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Scenes from Barcelona today as Catalonia’s regional parliament passed a motion to establish an independent Catalan Republic.
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#OTD 40 years ago, the 1st "Star Wars" film ("Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope") was released by 20th Century Fox.
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A man and a woman demonstrate dining under a plastic shield in a Paris restaurant on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. As restaurants in food-loving France prepare to reopen, some are investing in lampshade-like plastic shields to protect diners from the virus. | Photo Thibault Camus
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60 years ago today, John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States.
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20 years ago today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPod portable media player.
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40 years ago today, the "Miracle on Ice" took place in Lake Placid, New York, as the United States Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)
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210 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Ky. | Photo Alex Hessler
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#OTD in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, called for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impoverished children and the handicapped.
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50 years ago today, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy left a party on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard with Mary Jo Kopechne, 28; some time later, Kennedy's car went off a bridge into the water. Kennedy was able to escape, but Kopechne drowned.
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25 years ago today, a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
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#OTD in 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after reaching the surface in their Apollo 11 lunar module.
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From left, Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Mark Hamill are shown during the filming of the CBS-TV special "The Star Wars Holiday" in Los Angeles, Nov. 13, 1978. | Photo George Brich #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou
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50 years ago today, the children's program "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," created by and starring Fred Rogers, made its network debut on National Educational Television, a forerunner of PBS, beginning a 31-season run.
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#OTD in 1961, Ernie Davis of Syracuse University became the first African-American to be named winner of the Heisman Trophy.
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The world’s plastic waste could bury Manhattan under more than two miles of trash:
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80 years ago today, actor Al Pacino was born in New York. Photo shows Pacino smiling during an interview in New York on Sept. 21, 1973.
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On Jan. 17, 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. #OTD
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Deep in the rainforest of Volcanoes National Park, a 23-year-old female gorilla named Kurudi feeds on a stand of wild celery. She bends the green stalks and, with long careful fingers, peels off the exterior skin to expose the succulent inside. @felipedana
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Photos titled "I'll Never Be Silent" displayed in protest to rape & violence against women in #Brazil. @felipedana
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30 years ago today, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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#OTD in 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American flags (the second flag-raising was captured in the iconic Associated Press photograph.) | Photo Joe Rosenthal
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90 years ago today, actor William Shatner was born in Montreal, Canada. Shatner, dressed as Captain Kirk, poses for a photo while promoting the Paramount Studios film “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” in Los Angeles on Dec. 28, 1988.
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80 years ago today, singer-songwriter Neil Diamond was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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On Jan. 15, 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta. #TodayInHistory #OTD
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AP photog @BurhanOzbilici recounts the chaos that unfolded as he captured a Russian ambassador's assassination:
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50 years ago today, American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos sparked controversy at the Mexico City Olympics by giving "black power" salutes during a victory ceremony after they'd won gold and bronze medals in the 200-meter race.
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15 years ago today, Apple and its CEO Steve Jobs launched the first iPhone at the MacWorld event in San Francisco. The original iPhone went on sale in the U.S. on June 29, 2007.
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15 years ago today, Angela Merkel took power as Germany’s first female chancellor. Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of office in the parliament in Berlin, Nov. 22, 2005.
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20 years ago today, with Vice President Al Gore presiding in his capacity as president of the Senate, Congress formally certified George W. Bush the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 presidential election.
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth arrives at the Capitol for a close vote with her new daughter, Maile, in Washington today. In an historic change in Senate rules, the lawmakers decided to allow babies of members on the floor during votes. | Photo J. Scott Applewhite
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100 years ago today, the Paris Peace Conference, held to negotiate peace treaties ending the First World War, opened in Versailles, France.
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#OTD in 1967, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black person elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat.
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40 years ago today, Simon & Garfunkel performed a reunion concert in Central Park in New York attended by an estimated 500,000.
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90 years ago today, actress Rita Moreno was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico.
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50 years ago today, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967 that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg. | Photo Charles Tasnadi
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50 years ago today, the children's educational program "Sesame Street" made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS). | Photo Marty Lederhandler
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#OTD in 1981, Pres. Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John W. Hinckley, Jr.; also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and a DC police officer, Thomas Delahanty.
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A Rohingya Muslim man who has not eaten for the past three days grimaces in pain as he waits along the border in Bangladesh. @BernatArmangue
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Bill Clinton reaches over to George W. Bush during a discussion at the Pres. Leadership Scholars graduation ceremony in Dallas. @aptonypix
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75 years ago today, President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered, and that "the flags of freedom fly all over Europe."
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75 years ago today, during World War II, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
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35 years ago today, Apple Computer began selling its first Macintosh model, which boasted a built-in 9-inch monochrome display, a clock rate of 8 megahertz and 128k of RAM.
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75 years ago today, actor and musician Steve Martin was born in Waco, Texas. #APPhotoArchive Lennox McLendon
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85 years ago today, the first major league baseball game to be played at night took place at Cincinnati's Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.
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35 years ago today, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
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65 years ago today, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus; the incident sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by Blacks. | Photo Gene Herrick.
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95 years ago today, actor-comedian Dick Van Dyke was born in West Plains, Mo. Actor Dick Van Dyke poses in character on the set of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," as the episode "The Gunslinger" is filmed in Los Angeles, March 22, 1966.
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Associated Press photographers @daryasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand found ways to let outsiders see what was happening. Now, their work has been honored with the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography.
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30 years ago today, nine days before leaving the White House, President Ronald Reagan bade the nation farewell in a prime-time address, saying of his eight years in office: "We meant to change a nation and instead we changed a world."
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#OTD in 1993, the Senate voted 96-to-three to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg. #APPhotoArchive Doug Mills
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55 years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress. This photo shows Johnson reaching to shake hands with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after giving him one of the 72 pens used to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Alex Trebek was born #OTD in 1940 in Greater Sudbury, Canada. This photo shows Trebek in his Los Angeles home on August 3, 1988. @alangreth
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#OTD in 1961, President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference to be carried live on radio and television.
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70 years ago today, Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey in London.
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20 years ago today, Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 7-6 (3) for her first Grand Slam title, becoming the first Black female champion at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1957-58.
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25 years ago today, Ella Fitzgerald, the “first lady of song,” died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 79. | Photo Bob Dear
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50 years ago today, singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27. The grave of Jim Morrison, lead singer of the rock group "The Doors" is seen at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Sept. 7, 1971.
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Through the eyes of @AP photographers, the world of 2018 was always captivating, sometimes comical, often awe-inspiring _ and above all, beautiful.
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.@AP will launch a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace built by blockchain technology provider Xooa, where collectors can purchase the news agency’s award-winning contemporary and historic photojournalism.
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#OTD in 1954, Krone Circus trained elephants during a show in Rome. | Photo Walter Attenni
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This photo shows the main street of Oradour sur Glane, near Limoges, France #OTD in 1952, more than eight years after it was burned and sacked by the Nazis in a massacre that killed 642 people.
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#OTD in 1963, James Meredith became the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi. | Photo Bill Hudson
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#OTD in 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
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40 years ago today, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, killing two faculty members and wounding nine students. This photo shows Spencer leaving court, Oct. 1, 1979, in Santa Ana, Calif.
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30 years ago today, "The Seinfeld Chronicles," the pilot to the situation comedy "Seinfeld," aired on NBC-TV. | Photo Douglas C. Pizac
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50 years ago today, New York and Los Angeles celebrated their first gay pride parades.
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Members of the Ancient Order of Druids celebrate the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, June 22, 1979, at Stonehenge. Today is the #SummerSolstice, marking the first day of summer.
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#OTD in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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150 years ago today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York. | Photo Robert Kradin
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The McDonald’s Egg McMuffin celebrates its 50th anniversary today. Herb Peterson, the creator of the Egg McMuffin, shows off his invention at one of his McDonald's franchises in Santa Barbara, Calif., Tuesday, April 1, 1997.
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50 years ago today, a hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over the Pacific Northwest after receiving $200,000 in ransom. A hijacked Northwest 727 sits on a runway for refueling at Tacoma International Airport, Nov. 25, 1971.
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Pres. Donald Trump pats a U.S. Marine on the back as first lady Melania Trump looks on in Washington. #APPhoto by Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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70 years ago today, the United Nations headquarters in New York officially opened.
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It’s been 75 years since Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation. To mark the anniversary, we’re revisiting an AP story released on Aug. 26, 1944. It was the first eyewitness dispatch to come out of Paris at the time.
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#OTD in 1924, novelist James Baldwin was born in Harlem, N.Y. James Baldwin walks on a street in New York, June 19, 1963. #APPhotoArchive
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Pictures from Puerto Rico as official says Hurricane Maria has set the U.S. territory back decades:
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#OTD in 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, left, and Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos are showered with confetti as they travel down one of Mexico City’s boulevards shortly after Kennedy’s arrival for a three-day visit.
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