DAY IN HISTORY-October 13, 1792 Construction Begins on the White House America’s prime residence becomes a lightning rod for controversy. The President’s Palace, as it was originally called, was …

DAY IN HISTORY-September 17, 1908 Orville Wright Crashes Prototype, Passenger Killed Accident claims the world’s first victim in a powered aircraft. The temperature was a bit on the coolish side …

DAY IN HISTORY-August 31, 1786 Populist Uprising Triggers Changes to the U.S. Constitution Teething problems after independence threaten the stability of the new republic The uprising was called the …

What are you doingDAY IN HISTORY-July 25, 1965 Dylan Goes Electric Sparks Fly at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival It was a shock to the system. Not that the Newport audience didn’t know what was …

DAY IN HISTORY-June 20, 1996 Dancing House Sparks Outrage This building carries a political message but does everyone get it? Dancing House is a nickname of course, the structure’s real name is the …

Foraging Pig Provokes a War How a porker’s death set off an international incident It started June 15, 1859 with a shot heard throughout the Pacific Northwest. The northwest border between Canada …

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U.S. Attacks Mexico Border tensions lead to invasion It began as a regional 19th century border dispute and quickly escalated into the largest local land grab in American history. Anxious to expand …

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DAY IN HISTORY A Close Call A Miami gunman targets FDR It was the height of the Depression, February 15, 1933, and president-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt was delivering an impromptu speech from …

DAY IN HISTORY McDonald’s Conquers Russia What have burgers got to do with geopolitics? Everything. Hamburger diplomacy scored a big win for capitalism 36 years ago when McDonald’s opened its …

DAY IN HISTORY Birth of a Nation The Franco-Prussian War helped create one nation but weakened another Often eclipsed by the magnitude of the First World War, the smaller and shorter Franco-Prussian …

Legendary Vancouver actor Bernard Cuffling is an unapologetic name-dropper. And why shouldn’t he be? He has rubbed shoulders with theatrical heavyweights John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, John Neville, Brent Carver, and many others during his 60-year (and still counting) professional career. He’s especially fond of superstar Ginger Rogers. It was 1983. The play was Charlie’s Aunt, | INSPIRED 55+ Lifestyle Magazine

DAY IN HISTORY The Inglorious Death of Force Z Japanese aircraft cripple the Royal Navy in the South China Sea Force Z was a British squadron of two capital ships and four destroyers sent to the Far …

DAY IN HISTORY John is Dead John Thomson 4 min read · 6 hours ago -- Ex-Beatle John Lennon murdered minutes from his home It was December 8, 1980 and Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were returning from a mixing session at the Record Plant in midtown…

DAY IN HISTORY The Fall of the Wall Breaching the Berlin Wall unleashed a new world order. Erected in August, 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West, the much-hated Berlin Wall, a …

Panic and Urgency in America’s North Threats to the mainland prompted the largest military construction project of 1942 — the Alaska Highway 1942 was a pivotal year for the Allies in the Pacific …

Is Building My Own Submarine a Good Idea? What could possibly go wrong? When I was a kid, my favorite movie was Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I was too young to get the peacenik message …

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