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April 20, 2010: Barack Obama’s First Scandal

At around 9:45 p.m. local time on April 20, 2010, a series of explosions shook the Deepwater Horizon, an offshore rig operating 41 miles off Louisiana’s coast. Leased by BP and run by Transocean, the rig was drilling a deep exploratory well in the…

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April 20, 1859: An Insane Plea Leads To Acquittal

Daniel E. Sickles was no ordinary figure in 19th-century American politics. Born in New York City in 1819, Sickles was a man of contradictions—a flamboyant and controversial character whose life would be forever marked by two infamous events: his murder of Philip Barton Key and his…

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April 18, 1775: Paul Revere Goes For A Ride

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.” So begins Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, immortalizing one of…

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April 16, 1457 BC: The Dawn Of Military History

On April 16, 1457 BC, Pharaoh Thutmose III of Egypt confronted a coalition of Canaanite city-states near the strategic fortress of Megiddo in present-day northern Palestine. More than a turning point in Egypt’s imperial ambitions, the Battle of Megiddo holds distinction as the earliest…

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