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1982 – November 27 Washington Anti-Klan Protest. 1983 – August March on Washington commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech. 1986 – March 1 – November 15 The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament: From Los Angeles, California to Washington, D.C. (a.k.a.
Henry C. Newcomer (1861–1952), U.S. Army brigadier general, engineer whose work included Taft Bridge and improvements to Washington Aqueduct; retired to Washington, D.C. [17] Edward C. Peter II (1929 – 2008), U.S. Army lieutenant general, commander of Fourth United States Army ; born in D.C. [ 18 ]
November 2, 1963: Corpse of President Ngo Dinh Diem. At 6:37 a.m., [1] guards defending the Presidential Palace in Saigon raised the white flag of surrender after more than two hours of shelling by rebels within the South Vietnam military, but found that President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, had slipped out of the surrounded building, apparently through a tunnel that emerged ...
Capacity. 1,200 [ 1] Opened. May 31, 1980. ( May 31, 1980) Website. Venue Website. The 9:30 Club, originally named Nightclub 9:30 and also known simply as the 9:30, is a nightclub and concert venue in Washington, D.C. In 2018, Rolling Stone named the 9:30 Club one of the 10 best live music venues in the United States.
Presidents' Day, officially Washington's Birthday at the federal governmental level, is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. It is often celebrated to honor all those who served as presidents of the United States and, since 1879, has been the federal holiday honoring Founding Father George Washington, who led the Continental Army to victory in the American ...
November. November 13 – Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor. November 18 – The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes appears for the first time, in 35 newspapers. November 19 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 11 days remain until the end of the year.
2001 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday. 2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid ...