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This Day in History – February 19 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight

19 February 2023 by Gary Jenneke

February 19th should be for loving your neighbors. Join us as we find out why.

Section: News | Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt, Executive Order 9066, FDR, Fred Rogers, gary jenneke, history, Huaynaputina eruption, humor, Japanese internment camps, Joseph von Franckenstein, Kay Boyle, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, Nicolaus Copernicus, President Roosevelt, Studs Turkel, this day in history

This Day in History – February 18 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight

18 February 2023 by Gary Jenneke

February 18th is known for a Willkie and a way. Join us as we find out why.

Section: News | Tags: August Belmont Jr., Battle of Montereau, Belmont Racetrack, FDR, gary jenneke, Hans Asperger, history, humor, Man o'War, Napoleon Bonaparte, Scientology, this day in history, War of the Sixth Coalition, Wendell Willkie, Württembergs

This Day in History – February 15 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight

15 February 2023 by Gary Jenneke

February 15 is known for a sentencing, a sinking and a shooting. Join us as we find out why.

Section: News | Tags: attempted assassination fdr, FDR, feb 15, february 15, Franklin Delano, galileo birthday, gary jenneke, hilda guevara birthday, history fun, history humor, louis xv birthday, socrates death, this day in history, this day in history feb 15, this day in history february 15, uss maine sunk

This Day in History – January 6 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight

6 January 2023 by Gary Jenneke

January 6th is known for freedoms and windmills. Join us as we find out why.

Section: News | Tags: Cervantes, Don Quixote, Early Wynn, FDR, FDR Four Freedoms, Ganghwa massacre, gary jenneke, history, humor, Jamestown colony, John Smith, Pocahontas, Sam Rayburn, this day in history

This Day in History – November 28 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight

28 November 2022 by Gary Jenneke

November 28 is known for going full tilt. Join us as we find out why.

Section: News | Tags: 1944 Tehran strategy meeting, Christopher Scarver, Dervla Murphy, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gary jenneke, Gertrude Jeannette, history, humor, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jon Stewart, Kilmichael Ambush, Stalin, The Daily Show, this day in history, Winston Churchill

This Day in History – November 22 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight

22 November 2022 by Gary Jenneke

November 22nd is a day to pay respect… to a president, a comedian and a host of happenin’ history makers.

Section: News | Tags: Battle of Willow Grange, Breaker Morant, Eleanor Roosevelt, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gary jenneke, history, humor, JFK assassination, Monty Python, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Rodney Dangerfield, Second Boer War, Terry Gilliam, this day in history

This Day in History – October 8 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight

8 October 2022 by Gary Jenneke

October 8th is known for Louis and Charles, Frank and Charles, Stan and Oliver, and Paul and Chevy. Join us as we find out why.

Section: News | Tags: Battle at Andernach, Charles the Bald, Chevy Chase, Eastern AIrlines, Eddie Richenbacker, FDR, gary jenneke, history, humor, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, J. Frank Duryea, John Belushi, Laurel and Hardy, Louis the Younger, National Lampoon Vacation, Paul Simon, Saturday Night Live, Students for a Democratic Society, The Second Hundred Years, The Weathermen, this day in history

This Day in History – July 1st – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight

1 July 2022 by Gary Jenneke

July 1st is known for great f-ups and great pushes forward. Join us as we find out why.

Section: News | Tags: Battle of the Somme, College baseball, Conte du Rochambeau, David Duke, Errol Flynn, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gary jenneke, history, humor, Joan Fontaine, John Huston, Ku Klux Klan, Napoleon, New Deal, Olivia de Havilland, The Great Push Forward, this day in history

This Day in History – April 12 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight

8 April 2022 by Gary Jenneke

Whoa, April 12th is known for life, loss, and horsin’ around.

Section: News | Tags: 4th Crusade, Brooklyn Supreme, Constantinople, David Letterman, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gary jenneke, history, humor, Strand Bar bombing, The Great Train Chase, this day in history, Tiny Tim

George Takei and Kermit Roosevelt at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum

27 February 2017 by Laura LaVelle

Had I learned about Japanese internment camps, perhaps I would have learned… that they were not Japanese internment camps at all.

Section: Travel | Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt, FDR, FDR Presidental Museum and Library, George Takei, Hyde Park, Internment of Japanese Americans, Kermit Roosevelt, Road Trip Hyde Park, Star Trek, Takei activism

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