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	<title>Yesterday Papers</title>
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	<description>Reviving History Through Yesterday's Newspapers</description>
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		<title>The USS Liberty Incident &#8211; June 8, 1967</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a neutral United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli jet fighter planes and motor torpedo boats on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crewmembers (naval officers, seamen, two Marines, and a civilian), wounded 171 crew members, and damaged the ship severely. The ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nautical miles (47.2 km) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeandeaux.com/yesterdaypapers/the-uss-liberty-incident-june-8-1967/</link>
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		<title>Serial Killer David Berkowitz, &#8220;Son of Sam&#8221;, Arrested</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the early hours of April 17 1977, David Berkowitz blasted to death young lovers Alexander Esau and Valentina Suriani and left a handwritten letter in the middle of the street nearby, addressed to Captain Joe Borelli, the deputy chief of the task force, which had been set up to hunt down The .44 Caliber Killer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeandeaux.com/yesterdaypapers/serial-killer-david-berkowitz-son-of-sam-arrested/</link>
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		<title>The Murder of John Lennon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One shot missed, passing over Lennon's head and hitting a window of the Dakota building. However, two shots struck Lennon in the left side of his back and two more penetrated his left shoulder. All four bullets inflicted severe gunshot wounds, with at least one of them piercing Lennon's aorta. Lennon staggered up five steps to the security/reception area, said, "I'm shot," and collapsed. Concierge Jay Hastings covered Lennon with his uniform, and removed his glasses; he then summoned the police.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeandeaux.com/yesterdaypapers/the-murder-of-john-lennon/</link>
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		<title>The Execution of Julius &amp; Ethel Rosenberg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julius Rosenberg was born on May 12, 1918, in New York. He graduated from the City College of New York with a degree in electrical engineering in 1939 and in 1940 joined the Army Signal Corps where he worked on
radar equipment. He became a leader in the Young Communist League, where he met Ethel in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeandeaux.com/yesterdaypapers/the-trial-conviction-and-execution-of-julius-and-ethel-rosenberg/</link>
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		<title>The Death of Elvis Presley &#8211; Aug. 16, 1977</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2006, a journalist recalled: &#8220;Elvis Presley had [in 1977] become a grotesque caricature of his sleek, energetic former self&#8230; he was barely able to pull himself through his abbreviated concerts.&#8221; In Alexandria, Louisiana, the singer was on stage for less than an hour and &#8220;was impossible to understand.&#8221; In Baton Rouge, Presley failed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeandeaux.com/yesterdaypapers/the-death-of-elvis-presley-aug-16-1977/</link>
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		<title>The Kent State Massacre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Nixon had been elected President in 1968, promising to end the Vietnam War. In November 1969, the My Lai Massacre was exposed, prompting widespread outrage around the world and leading to increased public opposition to the war. In addition, the following month saw the first draft lottery instituted since World War II. The war [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeandeaux.com/yesterdaypapers/the-kent-state-massacre/</link>
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		<title>First American to Orbit Earth, John Glenn: Feb. 20, 1962</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Put a man into earth orbit, watch how he reacts to the environment of space, and then return him safely to earth &#8211; these were the objectives of the Mercury Project&#8217;s Friendship 7 mission. These are rather simple objectives today but they were far from simple in 1962. The USSR at the time was well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeandeaux.com/yesterdaypapers/first-american-to-orbit-earth-john-glenn-feb-20-1962/</link>
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		<title>The Titanic Disaster, April, 1912</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The White Star Line mega-ship, Titanic, on her maiden voyage, struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM on Sunday, April 14, 1912. Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes later she sank, carrying with her the lives of 1517 passengers and crew.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeandeaux.com/yesterdaypapers/the-titanic-disaster-april-1912/</link>
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		<title>Death of Marilyn Monroe, August 5, 1962</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the early morning hours of August 5, 1962 Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, California home by her live-in housekeeper Eunice Murray. At the time of her death,she was 36 years old.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeandeaux.com/yesterdaypapers/death-of-marilyn-monroe-august-5-1962/</link>
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		<title>Alaska Earthquake, March 27, 1964</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Good Friday Earthquake (also called the Great Alaska Earthquake) of Friday, March 27, 1964 (Good Friday, a Christian holy day), 5:36 P.M. AST (03:36 3/28 UTC) was the most powerful earthquake in U.S. and North American history, and the third most powerful ever measured by seismograph. The epicenter was about 10km east of the mouth of College Fjord, approximately 90 km west of Valdez and 120 km east of Anchorage.]]></description>
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