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50 YEARS AGO – After several failed attempts, American civil rights activist and preacher Martin Luther King Jr began a successful march...
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FEBRUARY 13 — Nigeria’s head of state General Murtala Ramat Muhammed was in the early hours of Friday, February 13, 1976, assassinated...
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51 YEARS AGO – The story of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, is still being told around...
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