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Kennedy throwing out the first pitch in 1962

A Look Back at the 1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at the D.C. Stadium

Take a look back at the 1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, held at the new D.C. Stadium (now RFK). See President John F. Kennedy throw out the first pitch in this historic game.

The Beatles at D.C. Stadium in 1966

"Bigger Than Jesus" Beatles Play D.C. Stadium in '66

Beatles became embroiled in a massive controversy with John Lennon's incendiary comments.

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February 27, 1923. "Miss Alice Reighly, 1409 Harvard Street, president of Anti-Flirt Club, which has just been organized in Washington, D.C., and will launch an 'Anti-Flirt Week' beginning March 4. The club is composed of young women and girls who have been embarrassed by men in automobiles and on street corners." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. (Shorpy)

A Look at the Amazing Anti-Flirt Club and Their "Anti-Flirt Week" from 1923

1921 map of Trinidad

Why Is It Named Trinidad?

11th and Kenyon St. NW in 1951

A Look Back at Columbia Heights in 1951: A Photo of 11th and Kenyon St. NW

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This Retro Metro Infomercial from the 1970s Is Amazing!

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1917 Film Footage of 180-Mile Journey Down Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Children playing in the Defrees Alley, NE Washington, D.C.; Near Capitol Building; One basement room rents for $9.00 a month, two rooms upstairs for $ 16.00, one bath and cold water in the hall for entire building.. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer

A Look Back at Defrees Alley in Washington D.C.

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D.C. slums in 1935

What Is The History of Hell's Bottom?

John Russell Pope's Competition Proposal for a Pyramid with Porticoes Style Monument to Abraham Lincoln, 1912

Unbuilt Wonders: The 1912 Alternative Designs for the Lincoln Memorial

Rayful Edmond

Rayful Edmond III: Washington D.C.'s Noted Drug Kingpin

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