June 12, 1987. US President Ronald Reagan delivers a rousing speech challenging Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

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On today’s Saturday Matinee, we unravel the layers of deception in this episode of "Useless Information", where extraordinary stories meet the flip side of reality.

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June 9, 1973. Secretariat makes horse racing history by winning the Belmont Stakes by an unprecedented 31 lengths and capturing the Triple Crown.

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June 8, 1949. George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, 1984, hits bookshelves for the first time, causing an immediate sensation with the novel’s chilling depiction of life under authoritarianism.

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June 7, 1892. Homer Plessy is arrested for sitting in the “whites-only” compartment of a train, leading up to the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson which heralded an era of racist legislation in America.

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June 6, 1944. During World War II, British, Canadian, and American troops storm five beaches in Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany.

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June 5, 1968. At a campaign stop in Los Angeles, US senator and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy is assassinated.

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On today’s Saturday Matinee, we bring you part one of a six part series on the most inspiring, infuriating, painful and powerful events in American history: Reconstruction.

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