David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
10:49:00 a.m. EDT. Liftoff occurred as scheduled with no delays. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent anti-apartheid activist, received an official farewell at his retirement service
For the first time in the history of the Space Shuttle program, live video images were transmitted from the flight deck from crew ingress through main engine cutoff.
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On June 19, 1865, slaves in Galveston, Texas, were finally informed of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
This momentous day, now celebrated as Juneteenth, marks a crucial milestone in African American history and the ongoing struggle for civil rights in the United States.
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Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski, a domestic terrorist and former mathematics professor, was formally indicted on ten criminal counts related to his series of mail bombings that spanned nearly two decades.
Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber', conducted a nationwide bombing campaign targeting universities, airlines, and individuals, killing three people and injuring 23 others before his capture in 1996.
Harris (Elmswell) Ltd Increased their prices of smoked back bacon to our Redgrave shop. The Fifteenth Amendment to the Irish Constitution was signed into law, officially removing the constitutional prohibition on divorce.
On this day, I was querying the price increases from our bacon supplier. Many years later, they seemed to need the revenue as their business was closed and the factory derelict.
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The first round of the Russian presidential election was held, marking a significant moment in post-Soviet democratic processes.
This election was part of Russia's ongoing political transformation following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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The IRA bomb in Manchester wrecked the city centre injuring 200. Ella Fitzgerald, the legendary American jazz singer known as the 'First Lady of Song', passed away.
It was a day Manchester will never forget. On June 15, 1996, the IRA singled out our city to be victim of the biggest bomb it had ever exploded on the British mainland.
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