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Modesto Morning Herald

Verified Real 1922

Corpse Spoils Wake; Refuses to Stay Dead

1922-06-17Source: Newspapers.comView clipping source

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Weird history on March 23

1977 First ever
The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
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1862 First ever
American Civil War: General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederate States Army lost the First Battle of Kernstown, but was still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula campaign.
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1848 First ever
The Italian tricolour is adopted for the flag of the Kingdom of Sardinia by Charles Albert of Sardinia during the First Italian War of Independence.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1925

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.), March 23, 1925

Page 4 · mentions "monster" · printed on this very day

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