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"They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America." —Langston Hughes, born
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#OTD in 1965: LAN Chile Flight 107, a Douglas DC-6, crashes shortly after taking-off from Santiago (Chile) killing all 87 aboard. The plane flew into a mountain in the Andes area of “Las Melosas”. Cause: “pilot failed to adopt the correct procedure for climbing out of Santiago”. pic.twitter.com/jg5o5h5UaI
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Don Hoak was born
#OTD in 1928. Was an All-Star with the Reds in 1957, batting .293 19 89 .863 while leading NL in doubles. Joined Pirates in 1959 & hit .294. The next year he finished 2nd for MVP. From 1957-61 his average season was .287 12 69 .802. pic.twitter.com/5ubVAGSV8a
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Happy birthday, cruiser USS Olympia! Commissioned
#OTD in 1895 in San Francisco. This souvenir launching mallet is in our artifact collection. pic.twitter.com/DXhoTOfxhc
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#OTD in 1958: Munich Air Disaster (Germany): BEA Flight 609, an Airspeed Ambassador, crashes on take-off due to slush on the runway, killing 23 of 44, including 8 Manchester United footballers (known as “Bubsy Babes”). Initial reports blamed Captain, but he was later cleared. pic.twitter.com/bMGlKlShDn
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#OTD in 1982 Kevin Everett, Buffalo Bills TE and special teams player. Still thinking of you and rooting for you! pic.twitter.com/ZTuqowBij1
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A score and a smile
#OTD in 2006, we defeated the Seahawks in#SBXL.@mvp86hineswardpic.twitter.com/CvDUyntym0Hines Ward touchdown vs. Seattle in Super Bowl XL -
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#OTD in 1937 Larry Hillman, Buffalo Sabres defense 1971-72 and 1972-73. One of Punch's old Maple Leafs who he brought back to help out the young franchise. pic.twitter.com/rGwlSgGzWV
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#OTD in 1983, a car bomb prepared by Israeli army exploded beside Palestinian Research Center in Beirut, killed 8 employees and 2 Lebanese soldiers and injured around 60. In addition, the explosion caused lose of important documents. pic.twitter.com/uKEzlcBxr2
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Lincoln Brigade Volunteer Thomas Brown was born
#OtD in Wichita Falls, Texas, 1910. He moved to the midwest as a young man; joined the Communist Party; sailed for Spain in 1937; served as a camp instructor, and was able to talk his way out of capture once, but not twice. pic.twitter.com/WZuBeTlusI
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#OTD, 49 years ago,#Apollo14 landed on the lunar surface. Coming off the heels of the nearly disastrous#Apollo13, the United States was eager to show the world that we could bounce back and push ahead – and under extreme pressure we did!
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Trayvon Martin was born
#OTD in 1995. He had a full life ahead of him until he was murdered in 2012. His death sparked a national conversation about racial profiling & — following the acquittal of his killer —#BlackLivesMatter
. Happy birthday, Trayvon. #TheMarchContinuespic.twitter.com/fskDUVok5Q
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Writer and critic William Michael Rossetti died
#OTD in 1919 One of the 7 founding members of the PRB, he edited their short-run journal 'The Germ' & was later a prolific critic & biographer including of his Rossetti siblings & Swinburne. He married Lucy Madox Brown in 1874. pic.twitter.com/oSifxHStUM
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A new era in the American quest for equality started in 1955, when Rosa Parks - born
#OTD - refused to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Photo: Rosa Parks and Nobel Laureate Martin Luther King, 1955. pic.twitter.com/3AEehdMJGt
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#OTD February 4, 2014: Beyoncé updates her Tumblr. 6 Years Ago Today! pic.twitter.com/9beJse21wW
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Gerry Cranham - Sport photographer ...and then some!
#OTD 1967 Burnley v Man Utd.#photography@welloffsidepic.twitter.com/sIuTetkNEC
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#OTD 1993
Martin Keown is clearly delighted to re-join Arsenal, having engineeed his way out of the club seven years earlier.
Martin would go on to enjoy another 11 trophy laden years at Highbury and in doing so cemented his legacy as one of the clubs greatest ever defenders. pic.twitter.com/VwWmHGHJKu
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61 years ago today was The Day the Music Died after a small plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, claimed the lives of these three rock and rollers. The tragedy wasn’t known by this name however until Don McLean’s “American Pie” song was released in 1971.
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"The black snow runs down from the rooftops; A red finger dips into your brow; Blue snow flakes sink into the empty room, They are a lovers’ dying mirrors". -- Georg Trakl (from Delirium) was born
#OTD in 1887. pic.twitter.com/Fy7LQsPMRQ
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