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      <title><![CDATA[On This Day: Nelson Mandela Elected President]]></title>

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      <description><![CDATA[On May 9, 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the first president of the post-apartheid era.]]></description>

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      <title><![CDATA[On This Day: V-E Day Ends World War II in Europe]]></title>

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      <description><![CDATA[On May 8, 1945, Germany officially ceased military operations, ending the European conflict of World War II and prompting massive celebrations in Allied countries.]]></description>

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      <title><![CDATA[On This Day: Wounded Knee Standoff Ends]]></title>

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      <description><![CDATA[On May 8, 1973, members of the militant American Indian Movement who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee surrendered to federal agents after a 10-week standoff. ]]></description>

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      <title><![CDATA[On This Day: Book Reveals That Nancy Reagan Contacted Astrologers for Advice]]></title>

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      <description><![CDATA[On May 3, 1988, former Reagan cabinet member Donald Regan claimed in his memoir that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule President Reagan's activities.]]></description>

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      <title><![CDATA[On This Day: Mayday Tribe Anti-War Protesters Clash With Police in Washington]]></title>

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      <description><![CDATA[On May 3, 1971, authorities in Washington quelled an anti-war protest organized by the Mayday Tribe, which had hoped to shut down the city. About 12,000 protesters were arrested over the course of several days, the largest mass arrest in U.S. history.]]></description>

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      <pubDate>Thursday, 03 May 2012 5:00:00 EDT</pubDate>

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      <title><![CDATA[On This Day: Supreme Court Upholds Desegregation School Busing]]></title>

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      <description><![CDATA[On April 20, 1971, in the case of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.]]></description>

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      <pubDate>Friday, 20 April 2012 5:00:00 EDT</pubDate>

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      <title><![CDATA[On This Day: Timothy McVeigh Commits Oklahoma City Bombing]]></title>

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      <description><![CDATA[On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 500.]]></description>

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      <pubDate>Thursday, 19 April 2012 5:00:00 EDT</pubDate>

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      <title><![CDATA[On This Day: Robert Peary Possibly Reaches North Pole]]></title>

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      <description><![CDATA[On April 6, 1909, an expedition led by Robert Peary may have reached the North Pole. A second explorer, Frederick Cook, claimed to have reached the pole a year earlier, though there are many doubts over each man&rsquo;s claim and it is likely that neither actually reached the pole.]]></description>

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      <pubDate>Friday, 06 April 2012 5:00:01 EDT</pubDate>

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      <title><![CDATA[On This Day: Helen Keller Comprehends the Word “Water”]]></title>

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      <description><![CDATA[On April 5, 1887, teacher Anne Sullivan taught her blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller, the meaning of the word &ldquo;water&rdquo; as spelled out in the manual alphabet.]]></description>

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      <pubDate>Thursday, 05 April 2012 6:00:00 EDT</pubDate>

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      <title><![CDATA[On This Day: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Sentenced to Death for Espionage]]></title>

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      <description><![CDATA[On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. They were executed by electric chair in 1953, becoming the only two American civilians to be executed for Cold War espionage.]]></description>

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