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the boston marathon takes place on patriot's day each year, with more than 30,000 competitors and thousands of spectators lining the streets. it shocked the world when this peaceful race ended in tragedy on april 15, 2013. two chechen brothers, dzhokhar and tamerlan tsarnaev, aged 19 and 26, exploded two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line, killing three people and injuring 264. tamerlan was killed evading arrest. when dzhokhar was caught, he claimed the attack was motivated by islamic beliefs and revenge on the u.s. for the afghanistan and iraq wars.

late in 1969, americans learned that, a year earlier, an american lieutenant and his unit had opened fire on a vietnamese village they thought was held by communists. they killed an estimated 400 innocent villagers, mostly women and children. descriptions of the my lai massacre were so shocking that in a poll taken in one u.s. city, only 12 percent of the people believed it was true.

the heavyweight boxing champion. he was jailed for refusing to serve in the u.s. army and became a hero of the antiwar movement.

in the fall of 1959, khrushchev accepted an invitation to visit the united states. the visit, and his meetings with president eisenhower, created hope for a permanent "thaw" in the cold war. to reduce tensions further, the two leaders planned a conference with great britain and france in may 1960, to discuss the divided nation of germany. but, on may 1, 1960, the russians shot down a high-altitude american spy plane called a u-2, which was flying over soviet territory. at first, the u.s. government said it was only a weather plane, but soviet leader khrushchev revealed that the pilot of the plane was alive and had confessed. the meeting that had been planned quickly collapsed, and the cold war continued.

the world's first earth-orbiting, man-made satellite.

he championed abolishing the 15th amendment (the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude).

hosted both clark gable's and marilyn monroe's last completed film.

(see: the misfits)