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Happy #NFLDraft Day! Did you know: retired NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, pictured below with his two rescue dogs, was selected in the 1986 NFL draft. He was a star wide receiver while at the University of Richmond and once had 10 catches for 208 yards (and a TD) in a single game.
Donald J. Trump has been elected the 47th president of the U.S. He is the first person to win, lose, then win again since Grover Cleveland in 1892.
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#OnThisDay in 1776, Patriots tore down a statue of King George III, melted it, and used the lead to cast bullets to shoot the British with.
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Just started re-reading Robert Caro’s classic ‘Master of the Senate’. Can’t help but think that Daniel Webster’s famous Senate words ring just as true today as they did 191 years ago…
Today is the 5th anniversary of the #PulseNightclub shooting. 49 people were killed in an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The gunman was killed by SWAT team members following a three-hour standoff.
In honor of Memorial Day, members of the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment (also known as The Old Guard) placed flags in front of each headstone at Arlington National Cemetery.
Joseph R. Biden has been sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America. #InaugurationDay
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#OnThisDay in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. #RosaParks
Joe Biden is projected to be the 46th President of the United States.
(Sources: AP/Reuters/NEP/Fox News/Edison, others)
#OnThisDay in 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi. Till allegedly whistled at a white woman in her family’s grocery store.
The late NASA “human computer” Katherine Johnson was born on this day in 1918. Ms. Johnson helped calculate the trajectories for some of NASA’s most historic missions. #WomenInSTEM 🇺🇸
On this day in 1965, U.S President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. It prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
#OnThisDay in 1945, at 8:15 a.m. local time, an American B-29 aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy”, contained about 64 kg (141 lb) of uranium-235.
