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31Oct
2016

This Week in History – Residents of Washington D.C. Vote in Presidential Election

It wasn’t until the 1964 elections that city residents could participate in presidential elections. “It’s only then that Washingtonians got two electoral seats,” says historian Marjorie Lightman. (D.C. Public Library, ...

24Oct
2016

This Week in History – Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash

Crowds panic in the Wall Street district of Manhattan due to the heavy trading on the stock market in New York City Oct. 29, 1929. The crash brings the roaring twenties to a screaming halt, ushering in a world-wide an ...

17Oct
2016

This Week in History – John DeLorean Arrested for Crime for Which He Was Later Acquitted

The DeLorean time machine is a fictional automobile-based time travel device featured in the Back to the Future franchise. In the feature film series, Dr. Emmett Brown builds a time machine based on a DeLorean DMC-12 car. ...

11Oct
2016

This Week in History – First Live TV Broadcast from Space

The crew of Apollo 7 transmitted the first live broadcast television aboard an American manned spacecraft. Astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. (on right), mission commander; and Donn F. Eisele, command module pilot; are seen ...

03Oct
2016

This Week in History – First African-American Supreme Court Justice

On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in to the Supreme Court, becoming the first African American justice in U.S. history.  He also led the charge for integration in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education. ...