Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles and some wearing bullet crowns, participated in a commitment ceremony today at World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, in Newfoundland, Pa. The event led a nearby school to cancel classes for the day. Photos @jacquelinelarma
75 years today, AP photographer Joe Rosenthal captured what may be the most famous photograph of World War II: an image of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. apne.ws/e4ngXDP
60 years ago today, Ruby Bridges became the first Black student at an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, walking past crowds screaming racist slurs.
U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Nov. 14, 1960.
80 years ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health, testifies during a hearing on Project Bioshield on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 4, 2003.
#OTD in 1921, the remains of an unidentified American service member were interred in a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in a ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is seen in Arlington Cemetery in 1937.
Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. lays her head on casket during a memorial service at the Arizona Capitol today in Phoenix. | Photo Ross D. Franklin
For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed the dawn of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest stars were just beginning to glow. apne.ws/Pli232F@NSF
