In a recorded lecture, Adm. Robert Edwin Peary describes his expedition to the North Pole, which he reached on April 6, 1909.

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On April 4, 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed by 12 Western democracies, creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). President Harry Truman speaks at the signing ceremony on the significance of the new military alliance the first ever made during peacetime.

Robert Kennedy was a powerful figure in Washington until his assassination in 1968.