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• Tractorcade Occupies the Mall
• Miniature Cyclone Strikes South Washington
• Beef Depot Monument
• Video of Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
• The Klan Walks in Washington
• Slave Coffle, House of J.W. Neal & Co, Washington, DC
• WAVES Units march on Washington Monument grounds
• An Act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia
• Washington Gas Works
• US Airmail Service Begins
• Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
• First White House Easter Egg Roll
• First Televised July Fourth Celebration on the National Mall
• Queen Elizabeth visits the Smithsonian "Castle"
• First Festival of American Folklife
• Boy Scout Jamboree
• Cherry Tree Protest at Jefferson Memorial site
• Andrew Jackson Downing creates a landscape plan for the Mall
• Longest Walk ends at National Mall
• First Rolling Thunder Rally
• US Marine Band's First Public Concert
• Washington Canal filled in
• Presidents' Day snowstorm of 1979
• Proprietors deed land for new capital
• Cornerstone Laid for the Washington Monument
• Tidal Basin Beach Closes
• Work Begins on the Smithsonian "Castle"
• Washington's First Streetcar Line Opens
• National Drill and Encampment
• 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
• Earthquake on the National Mall
• Wi-Fi Comes to the National Mall
• White Bathing Beach Will Be Dismantled
• Washington, DC Dinner Plate
• Snow Riot
• AIDS Quilt displayed on the National Mall
• First Performance at the Sylvan Theater
• A Great Park System
• Panoramic Views of Washington, DC
• Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message from the US Capitol
• Ku Klux Klan Rally
• $1,795,847 District Deficiency Measure is Now Up To Senate
• City swimming pool and Washington Monument in distance
• Children in the Reflecting Pool
• District Swimmers Race as Beach Opens
• Bonus March
• Pierre L'Enfant plans the Federal City
• Black Blizzard blankets the National Mall
• Center Market Opens
• White Bathing Beach