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Today in History: September 23, Nixon’s ‘Checkers’ speech

Today in History: September 22, Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Today in History: September 21, Nairobi shopping mall attack

Today in History: September 20, Billie Jean King wins “Battle of the Sexes”

Today in History: September 19, state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

‘Migration at warp speed’: Artists detail fleeing El Salvador in new documentary showing in DC

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Today in History: September 18, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies

Today in History: September 17, U.S. Constitution signed

Today in History: September 16, Cherokee Strip Land Run

Once-homeless blues guitarist holds DC show to benefit unhoused, disabled veterans

20 years later, Gulf Coast natives remember the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina

Historian reacts to ‘appalling’ White House directive to review Smithsonian museums

Carter Barron Amphitheater honors the past and looks to the future

50 years later, detectives hope new forensics analysis, tips can solve Kathy Beatty murder

Remembering Ozzy Osbourne backstage at Capital Centre: ‘Me mum was a nurse’

John Lyon, longtime DC radio host dies, spent decades quietly seeking answers, justice for murdered daughters

‘Lost Weekend’ photos on display in DC depict John Lennon through lens of one of his lovers

A memorial for the second president could soon be in DC

50 years after Vietnam War’s end — You can still hear its history directly from troops

‘Too hard for them to talk about’: Grandson of Holocaust survivors tells their story while teaching history

How a fight over gunpowder helped spur the American Revolution in Virginia 250 years ago

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April 21

We have Congress to thank for the White House Easter Egg Roll

24 years after leaving DC, ‘Rally in the Alley’ returns this weekend at Mister Days in Clarendon

‘We have power’: Positive Force DC commemorates 40th birthday with 5 days of punk music and protests