Video: 'The March of the Bonus Army' (Bonus Marchers evicted at 15:57)

(Thursday, July 28, 1932, the U.S. Army attack began at 4:45 p.m. EDT, during the Great Depression) — President Herbert Hoover today ordered the U.S. Army, under General Douglas MacArthur, to forcibly evict the “Bonus Army,” tens of thousands of World War I veterans who, desperate for financial assistance, had come to Washington to lobby Congress to accelerate the year when they would be eligible for their cash bonuses. Continue reading Federal troops forcibly evict ‘Bonus Army’ veterans gathered in Washington to demand immediate payments of cash bonuses 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 28 1932) →

Video: 'Argentina Mourns Eva Peron (1952)'

(Saturday, July 26, 1952, 8:25 p.m. local time) — Argentina’s iconic first lady Eva Perón, 33, died tonight in Buenos Aires after a long battle with cervical cancer. Continue reading Argentina’s legendary first lady Eva Peron, 33, dies of cancer 70 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 26 1952) →

Video: 'The Tuskegee Study'

(Tuesday, July 25, 1972; during the Tuskegee Syphilis Study) — The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light today as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing them to die, as a way of studying the disease. Continue reading Black men went untreated in notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, AP reports 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 25 1972) →