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Planning for a permanent US vice-presidential residence beginning in 1966 under the Johnson administration in order to economise on securi...

On this day in 1975, Manson Family cult member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme ( previously ) attempted to assassinate US president Gerald Ford (...

boom! : the disastrously inebriated flop starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor judged the “best failed art film ever”  supermarginal ...

On this day, at some time after 15:00 local time, James “Jimmy” Riddle Hoffa, American labour activist and president of the International ...

On this day in 1961, Lee Harvey Oswald was granted an exit visa to the return to the United States after two years of living and working in ...

After having taken away workplace flexibilities and maximal telework and remote working postures purely out of spite—not enhancing workgr...

Named after queen Hadassah of the Hebrew bible who canonically revealed the designs of the Persian vizier to execute the Jews of Persia and...

Whilst not exactly counter-programming for the later Expo ’74 and other iterations, the evangelic conference held in mid-June 1972 in Dal...

alligator auschwitz : Trump’s Florida detention centre is by every definition a concentration camp solvitur ambulando : when in doubt, go fo...

Coined by journalist Raymond Clapper and the Associated Press reporting on the selection process, leaders of the US Republican party gathe...

Arrested on this day in 1961 in Panama City Florida on suspicion of a committing a burglary at pool hall based on the testimony of a single...

Designed to fail for its language that would hurt both industrialists and farmers, the US congress—against its own interests—passed on this...

First published by Charles Scribner’s Sons on this day in 1925, the Jazz Age novel by writer F Scott Fitzgerald, although well-received ini...

With a similar route transversed just after World War II, proposed by the attorney general under FDR and Truman who feared that Americans we...

Via JWZ , whilst trying to further belittle and harass transgender individuals, through an emergency measure the governor of the Ameri...

Guardian contributor Alexander Hurst , reflecting on a recent roadtrip with a friend from Washington, DC to New Orleans—in part retracing...

As of this posting (timestamps are important as we’ve gleaned from every episode of the NPR Politics podcast ), the continuing resolution ...

On this day in 1962, JFK delivered a speech before congress establishing four pillars of basic consumer rights, amid a backdrop of histor...

This 1846 hand-coloured primer was printed as an abecedary (see previously here and here ) for the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Fair, autho...

Inaugurated on this day in 1853 ( see below —public ceremonies were held on 4 March with a few exceptions when the date fell on a Sunday fro...