In 1587, an English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke Island off
In 1796,
In 1908, American etiquette expert Amy Vanderbilt was born in
In 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside
In 1937, the Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
In 1942, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured
In 1946, Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the
In 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
In 1983, Samantha Smith and her parents returned home to
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