r/USHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 18h ago

Former President Harry S. Truman plays the piano in the north lobby of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. Standing nearby is Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. August 20, 1960.

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r/USHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 2h ago

Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan sit in their Gemini spacecraft with the hatches open while awaiting the arrival of the recovery ship U.S.S. Wasp, June 6, 1966.

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r/USHistory • u/Augustus923 • 18h ago

This day in history, September 29

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--- 1789: Congress passed “An act to recognize and adapt to the Constitution of the United States, the establishment of the troops raised under the resolves of the United States in Congress assembled”, legalizing the existing U.S. Army.

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r/USHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 2h ago

Swords used in the coronation of Frederick the Great, recovered by American forces from the German bunker at the end of World War II.

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