On April 11, 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of duty over his conduct of the Korean War. Two weeks later, the Senate unanimously called for an inquiry into MacArthur's firing.
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Watch our previous PAST FORWARD conversation with environmental scientist Peter Gleick, CEO of the US Water Alliance Mami Hara and historian Jessica Marie Johnson on the history of access, availability and conflicts around water in the United States.
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Learn about Ruth Batson's fight for educational equity in #BusingBattlegroundPBS , now streaming on YouTube and the PBS App → youtu.be/S2Hm8jqByvU

Now is your last chance to stream RUBY RIDGE before it returns to the American Experience vault!

Watch it now on YouTube, PBS.org or the free PBS App 👇
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The housewives-turned-activists of Love Canal created a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill.

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Navajo public health activist Annie Dodge Wauneka was born on April 11, 1910, in Deer Spring, Arizona.

📰 Read coverage of Wauneka receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the December 12, 1963 issue of the Navajo Times. 👇
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Don't miss the opportunity to peel back the curtain on the man behind America's fairytale. Watch AMERICAN OZ now before it returns to the American Experience vault!

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An early display of thawing U.S.-China relations came on April 10, 1971, when the first Americans allowed into China since the creation of the People's Republic in 1949 stepped from Hong Kong onto the mainland for a Ping-Pong tournament.
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If you missed yesterday's PAST FORWARD conversation with Ameenah Shakir, Cat Bohannon and Pam Belluck, you can now watch the full recording on our YouTube channel 👇

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Eleven days before their official home opener, on April 9, 1912, the Boston Red Sox christened the still-under-construction Fenway Park with an exhibition game against the Harvard Crimson.
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NASA inspired a new answer to the question 'what do you want to be when you grow up?' when it introduced its first astronauts, the Mercury Seven, on April 9, 1959.
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On the afternoon of April 9, 1865, in the parlor of Wilmer McLean's home in Appomattox County, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces.
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Barred from performing at Constitution Hall, on April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson sang instead from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—to a crowd of more than 75,000.

After selling the land to the Board of Education for a dollar, Hooker Chemical washed their hands of their former waste dump, even as a neighborhood sprouted up on top of it.

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Don't miss our conversation on the impact of historical narratives on women's health with Ameenah Shakir, Cat Bohannon and Pam Belluck, TODAY at 4PM EDT.

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The first Hollywood starlet, a woman whose fame would not only change the meaning of celebrity but also empower her and other artists to challenge the emerging power of the studio system, Mary Pickford, was born on this day in 1892.
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George Papanicolaou pioneered the cervical cancer screening test—but it was doctors like Helen Dickens who brought the life-saving Pap test to the people.

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50 years ago today, Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron hit home run number 715, breaking the record set by Babe Ruth.

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