On April 22, 1970, millions of Americans concerned about the environment observed the first “Earth Day.”
A man carries a child on his shoulders during an Earth Day rally at the Civic Center plaza in Chicago on April 22, 1970.A participant at the first Earth Day rally at the Civic Center in Chicago wears a gas mask with a pipe with a cover on it coming out of his mouth on April 22, 1970.A girl at the Earth Day rally covers her face with a mask to protest growing pollution in the air on April 22, 1970, in Chicago.
In 1944, during World War II, U.S. forces began invading Japanese-held New Guinea with amphibious landings at Hollandia and Aitape.In 1993, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington, D.C., to honor victims of Nazi extermination. In 2005, Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom outside Washington, D.C., to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans.
In 2013, a seriously wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room with bombing the Boston Marathon in a plot with his older brother, Tamerlan, who died after a fierce gunbattle with police. In 2000, in a dramatic pre-dawn raid, armed immigration agents seized 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of a custody dispute, from his relatives’ home in Miami; Elian was reunited with his father at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.
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