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William T. Sherman marching...
Item # 728088 ·
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Feb. 16, 1865  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "LATE SOUTHERN NEWS" "Rapid Progress Of Sherman" "South Carolina Under His Heel" "He Seizes All The Railroads" "Circumvallates...
$29
Supreme Court rules in 3 discrimination cases...
Item # 727950 ·
NEW YORK TIMES, June 6, 1950  

* Colleges not permitted to discriminate based on race
* McLaurin vs. Oklahoma State Regents & more
* United States Supreme Court decisions

The top of the front page has a one column...
$52
Navy Day 1945... Post World War II celebration...
Item # 727949 ·
THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 28, 1945

* "Navy Day" Central Park, New York City
* Post World War II military celebration
* President Harry S. Truman speeches & more

The front page has a nice banner headline: "TRUMAN BARS...
$52
Creation of UN United Nations in 1945...
Item # 727948 ·
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 25, 1945 

* Creation of the United Nations - UN
* Collective security for global stability
* Post World War II universal human rights
* Institutionalized Humanitarianism

The top of the front page...
$58
Premiere of "Tron: Legacy", in a Los Angeles newspaper...
Item # 727947 ·
CALENDAR SECTION only of the Los Angeles Times, Dec. 17, 2010

* Best "Tron: Legacy" film advertisement
* Grand Opening Day movie premiere 
* Walt Disney science fiction action

A terrific issue on the premiere of the...
$48
1992 Bloods vs. Crips L.A. street gangs...
Item # 727946 ·
LOS ANGELES TIMES, June 20, 1992 

* L.A. street gangs - Post-"The Watts Truce"
* The Bloods and the Crips rivalry ending ?

Near the bottom of the front page is a two column heading: "Gangs Demand their Place at Table of...
$52
Japanese aerial bombing of Canton & Nanjing (Nanking), China
Item # 727945 ·
THE BETHLEHEM GLOBE-TIMES, Penn., Sept. 21, 1937.

* Nanjing - Canton & Nanking air raid bombing
* Japanese airplane raiders - pre massacre

The top of the front page has a three column headline: "YARNELL DEFIES JAPAN;
...
$42
Item # 727944 ·
THE NEW YORK TIMES. Sept. 13, 1933 

* Jewish boxer Barney Ross w/ photo
* World lightweight boxing championship
* vs. Tony Canzoneri at Polo Grounds in NYC

The top of page 23 has a banner heading: "35,000 See Ross...
$67
1993 Snoop Dog murder charge...
Item # 727942 ·
LOS ANGELES TIMES, Sept. 4, 1993 

* Snoop Doggy Dogg & first degree murder charge
* West Coast hip-hop gangsta & G-Funk Rapper 

Page 16 of section B has a four column heading: "Rap Star Faces Murder Charge, Appears at...
$68
1981 child vocalist Eve Marie Shahoian...
Item # 727941 ·
LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 12, 1981 

* Young Eve Marie Shahoian w/ photo
* Child classical vocalist prodigy
* Opera & jazz singer and songwriter 

The bottom of page has a heading: "10-Year-Old Must Be Seen, and Heard" with...
$48