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September 5 – Howard Unruh, a World War II veteran, kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer. September 15 – The Housing Act of 1949 is enacted. September 29 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino is found guilty of broadcasting for Japan as "Tokyo Rose" during World War II.
On July 13, 1951, the state of Kansas was hit with over 25 inches of rain. The cities of Manhattan, Lawrence, and Topeka were most affected, and over 2 million acres of land were damaged by the flood.
January 28 – The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont. February 4 – Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first cel-animated feature in motion picture history, is released in the U.S. following last year's premiere.
January 14–17 – The Winter X Games take place in Crested Butte. [2] January 21 – In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine aboard, headed for Houston, Texas.
Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter. In parka strongholds Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine ...
President John Kennedy committed America to landing on the moon in a speech on Sept. 12, 1962. It was spring.The calendar said otherwise, yes. But, as has been argued before in this space, Kennedy ...
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, a 1984 Television Movie based on the 1977 book; Miracle on 34th Street, a 1947 comedy-fantasy spanning from Thanksgiving to Christmas; remade for television in 1973 and theatrically in 1994; Molly's Pilgrim, a 1985 Oscar-winning short film; The National Tree, a 2009 Hallmark Channel Original Movie starring Andrew ...
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