🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Wednesday, April 29. Today, we're checking out the first HBCU, the end of the Easter Rising, the first World Weightlifting Championship, Operation Frequent Wind, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last Oldsmobile, and more. It's all quick, on point, and easy to follow!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1854
Lincoln University becomes the nation's first college-degree-granting HBCU.
-1864
British troops suffered their worst defeat in the New Zealand Wars at Gate Pā, losing to 230 Māori warriors entrenched there.
-1872
Jesse James' gang robbed a Columbia, Kentucky bank of $1,500, killing employee Robert A.C. Martin.
-1916
Irish republicans surrender unconditionally and abandon the post office in Dublin, ending the Easter Rising.
-1922
The first World Weightlifting Championship was held in Tallinn, Estonia.
-1945
The U.S. Army liberated 31,601 people from the Dachau Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
-1975
Operation Frequent Wind begins to evacuate US citizens from Saigon, ending US involvement in the Vietnam War.
-1990
Wrecking cranes start tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate.
-1991
139,000 people are killed, and 10 million are homeless by a cyclone in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
-1997
The Chemical Weapons Convention bans the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
-2004
The World War II Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., honoring the 16 million U.S. service members.
-2004
Last Oldsmobile rolls off the assembly line in Michigan, ending the 106-year-old automotive brand, the oldest in America.
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📸 Snapshot
Passengers playing cards and drinking in the cabin of an Imperial Airways plane, 1936
🗨️ Last Words
“Now is not the time for making new enemies.”