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Today in History: August 1, America gets its MTV

MTV began its American broadcast; the first music video aired on the new cable TV network was “Video Killed the Radio Star,” by The Buggles.

NEW YORK – APRIL 05: MTV sign is seen on April 05, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by Peter Kramer /Getty Images)

FILE – United States’ Michael Phelps poses with his gold medal for the men’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Today in History: July 31, Phelps sets Olympic medal record

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A Palestinian youth carries a sack of aid that landed in the Mediterranean Sea after being airdropped over central Gaza, at the shore of Zawaida, Gaza Strip Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Dozens killed while seeking aid at Gaza crossing as US envoy heads to Israel for talks

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**FILE** Commander-in-chief, United Nations Command, and U.S. Army Gen. Mark W. Clark signs the Military Armistice agreement at a base camp at Munsan-ni, Korea on July 30, 1953. Seated are members of the U.N. negotiating team, from left to right, Gen. Maxwell Taylor; Gen. Otto Weyland; Gen. Clark; Vice-Adm. Mark W. Briscoe, and Adm. Jocko Clark. The men standing are not identified. The 1953 Korean armistice agreement did stop the fighting, but it didn’t start the peace. Now the last generations to remember the “great toil” may see their war truly come to an end, if the two Koreas achieve the peace settlement proposed last week by their leaders. (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 27, Korean War hostilities end

By The Associated Press

July 27, 2025 at 2:00 a.m.

The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting on the...

Palestinians pray over the body of 5-month-old baby, Zainab Abu Halib, who died from malnutrition-related causes, according to the family and the hospital, during her funeral outside the Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born

By The Associated Press

July 26, 2025 at 7:18 p.m.

By SAMY MAGDY and MARIAM DAGGA KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A mother pressed...

FILE – Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

The House is looking into the Epstein investigation. Here’s what could happen next

By The Associated Press

July 26, 2025 at 11:23 a.m.

By STEPHEN GROVES WASHINGTON (AP) — A key House committee is looking into the investigation...

President George Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House July 26, 1990. Joining the president are Rev. Harold Wilke, rear left, Evan Kemp, chairman of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, left, Sandra Parrino, chairman of the National Council on Disability; and Justin Dart, chairman of The President’s Council on Disabilities. Jefferson Memorial is in background. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

Today in History: July 26, Americans with Disabilities Act signed into law

By The Associated Press

July 26, 2025 at 2:00 a.m.

President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, prohibiting discrimination based on mental...

FILE – In this 1950’s photo made available by the National Archives, a man included in a syphilis study has blood drawn by a doctor in Alabama. For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South withheld treatment for Black men who were unaware they had syphilis, so doctors could track the ravages of the illness and dissect their bodies afterward. (National Archives via AP)

Today in History: July 25, Tuskegee Syphilis Study exposed

By The Associated Press

July 25, 2025 at 2:01 a.m.

The U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, was found...

In this July 24, 1969 photo from the U.S. Navy, Navy UDT swimmer Clancy Hatleberg prepares to jump from a helicopter into the water next to the Apollo 11 capsule after it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, to assist the astronauts into the raft at right. (Milt Putnam/U.S. Navy via AP)

Today in History: July 24, Apollo 11 returns home from the moon

By The Associated Press

July 24, 2025 at 2:00 a.m.

The Apollo 11 astronauts — two of whom had been the first humans to set...

Israeli activists take part in a protest against the war in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s measures regarding food distribution and the forced displacement of Palestinians, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

UN urges peaceful settlement of disputes as UN chief points to ‘the horror show in Gaza’

By The Associated Press

July 23, 2025 at 11:38 a.m.

The vote was unanimous on a Pakistan-drafted resolution in the 15-member council.

Carlos Uzcategui, one of the Venezuelan migrants deported months ago to El Salvador by the United States under an immigration crackdown, is welcomed home by his wife, Gabriela Mora, in Lobatera, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Venezuela’s returning migrants allege abuses in El Salvador’s ‘hell’ prison where US sent them

By The Associated Press

July 23, 2025 at 11:43 a.m.

Venezuelan migrants imprisoned for months in El Salvador under a U.S. immigration crackdown described “hell”...

Police in the streets after the racial riots in Detroit, Michigan in July 1967. (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 23, the 1967 Detroit riot begins

By The Associated Press

July 23, 2025 at 2:00 a.m.

The first of five days of deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning...

Relatives of Palestinian child Salem Hussein, 12, killed in an Israeli army bombardment of Gaza

UN body says over 1,000 have been killed seeking food in Gaza since May as hunger crisis worsens

By The Associated Press

July 22, 2025 at 9:58 a.m.

The U.N. human rights office says more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since May...

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