Category Archives: On This Day
D-Day isn’t one of those dates most Americans remember easily. It’s not associated with bank holidays, BBQs, parades or other high profile celebrations. There’s no Hallmark cards and socially mandated gifts for spouses and lovers associated with the day. It’s not even a date in history that is marked with any specific, large scale memorials or tributes. Most occasions, it slips quietly by, virtually unnoticed, save for a few token stories…. like this one… and brief mentions in between the tabloid news we’re spoon fed and hyped up on these days.
But June 6, 1944 was not one of those days that would so quietly slip by. On this day, the Allied forces crossed the English channel to storm five beach heads along the French Normandy coast. The US forces landed at Utah and Omaha, while the Canadians and British attacked attacked Sword, Juno and Gold beaches. But it was not just the beaches that were a’buzz with allied activity.
The New Editor: 145 years ago on this date in 1865, slavery was abolished in the US with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.
Tsuyuko Nakao, 92, right, and Kinuyo Ikegami, 77, both bereaved family members of atomic bomb victims, console each other as they pray for the victims in front of the cenotaph at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima. Shuji Kajiyama-AP New … Continue reading
In the evening hours of April 4, 1968 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was struck down by an assassin’s bullet as he stood on a motel balcony in Memphis, TN. LIFE Magazine has released a series of photographs made at … Continue reading



