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This Week in History Highlights From 1922 to 1976
Events span radio advertising first aired in 1922 on WEAF in New York, Martin Luther King Jr. speech in 1963, Michael Jackson birth in 1958, Katrina 2005 devastation, Thurgood Marshall 1967 confirmation, Guion Bluford spaceflight 1983, early US tennis championship 1881, Marvel Comics 1939 debut, Diana crash 1997, World War II start 1939, end 1945 surrender, Great Fire of London 1666, US Treasury creation 1789, CBS news expansion 1963, early internet tests 1969, Richard I coronation 1189, Paris treaty 1783, Viking 2 Mars 1976.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WEAF
New York City
Queensboro Realty Co
Martin Luther King Jr
Lincoln Memorial
Washington, D.C
Iteioui
Fremont
Abraham Lincoln
Senate
Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court
Guion S. Bluford Jr
Newport
Rhode Island
Marvel Comics
Human Torch
Timely Publications
New York
John D. Long Lake
Union
South Carolina
Susan Smith
Paris
Diana
Dodi Fayed
Henri Paul
London
United States ‘Treasury Department
CBS Evening News
Walter Cronkite
Network
University of California, Los Angeles
England
Richard I
Westminster Abbey
United States
Britain
America
Mars