By JADEN MOUNT Topeka City Police have issued 24 citations and arrested 18 individuals since May 14 when Kansans joined nonviolent protests organized by the…
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This Day In History — Winston Churchill Becomes British Prime Minister
May 10 1775 Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British. 1863 Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died after being accidentally…
View More This Day In History — Winston Churchill Becomes British Prime MinisterThis Day in History—–Mother’s Day Becomes Public Holiday
May 09 1914 Mother’s Day became a public holiday. 1926 Explorers Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole. 1936 Fascist Italy…
View More This Day in History—–Mother’s Day Becomes Public HolidayThis Day in History — Public Enemy Number One , Al Capone, was jailed for tax evasion.
May 04 1626 Peter Minuit landed in Manhattan, which he later bought for $24 worth of cloth and brass buttons. 1886 The Haymarket Square riot…
View More This Day in History — Public Enemy Number One , Al Capone, was jailed for tax evasion.This Day In History — Niccolo Machiavelli is Born
May 03 1937 Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind. 1948 The Shelley v. Kraemer Supreme Court decision stated…
View More This Day In History — Niccolo Machiavelli is BornThis Day In History—-Soviet Union Announces Fall of Berlin
May 02 1885 Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time. 1939 Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played…
View More This Day In History—-Soviet Union Announces Fall of BerlinThis Day In History — Power Plant Accident at Chernobyl Occurs
April 26 1607 Colonists land at Cape Henry, Va., They would found Jamestown the next month. 1865 John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, was surrounded by…
View More This Day In History — Power Plant Accident at Chernobyl OccursThis Day In History—-First Seeing Eye Dog
April 25 1901 New York became the first state to require license plates on cars. 1915 British, Australian, and New Zealand forces landed at Gallipoli.…
View More This Day In History—-First Seeing Eye DogThis Day In History — American Revolution Begins
April 19 1775 The “shot heard around the world” was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting…
View More This Day In History — American Revolution BeginsThis Day In History—-Great San Francisco Earthquake
April 18 1775 Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn Massachusetts colonists of the arrival of British troops during the American Revolution. 1906…
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