Stalin became the Soviet Union’s leader, Ellis Island closed, and the first meteor shower in North America was recorded. MLB elected its first commissioner, and the first photos of Saturn’s rings were transmitted. The Battle of Guadalcanal began, and “The Nose” was climbed for the first time. President Ford became the longest-serving US president, and […]
The Rolling Stones gave their first concert in London (1962). 1,300 miners were illegally deported in Bisbee, Arizona (1917). The Moors murderers began their killing spree (1963). A heat wave in the Midwest killed 1,000 people (1995). Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman to run for a major political party in the US (1984). The […]
Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal in 1901, Mona Lisa was recovered in 1913, Apple went public in 1980, Helmsley was sentenced to prison in 1989, China and USSR resumed diplomatic relations in 1932, Beethoven had his first music lesson in 1792, the first motel was established in 1925, and the modern golf tee […]
The Twelfth Amendment changed the Electoral College process for electing the president and vice president, requiring each elector to have one vote for each position. If no candidate wins a majority, the House of Representatives votes on the top three presidential candidates, while the Senate votes on the top two vice presidential candidates. The amendment […]
Reagan challenged Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall in 1987. OJ Simpson was charged with murder in 1994. Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday in 1942. The National Baseball Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1939. David Berkowitz was sentenced to life in prison in 1978. The first color horror film […]
The Civil War began in 1861 with the firing on Fort Sumter. The polio vaccine was declared safe in 1955, and Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961. Bill Haley recorded “Rock Around the Clock” in 1954, and President Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945. The Mark Strand Theater opened in 1914, and […]
Hitler demands Sudetenland reunite with Germany (1938). NASA launches 50th space shuttle mission, Endeavour (1992). US declares war on terror (2001). Train collision kills 25 due to texting driver (2008). Lascaux cave paintings discovered (1940). SS Central America sinks with gold (1857). Bonanza debuts in color (1959). Johnny Cash dies (2003). Hitler demands that the […]
Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed, killing 520 people in 1985. The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb in 1953. Swiss banks agreed to pay back US$1.25 billion to Holocaust survivors in 1998. Thirteen Jewish poets and intellectuals were executed in the “Night of the Murdered Poets” in 1952. The California Supreme Court annulled 4,000 […]
The USSR lifted the Berlin blockade in 1949, the Z3 computer was created in 1941, Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt in 1982, Bob Dylan left The Ed Sullivan Show in 1963, a strong earthquake hit Sichuan, China in 2008, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935, Jimmy Carter visited Cuba in 2002, the […]
US-Soviet arms control talks stalled in 1986 due to disagreement over the Strategic Defense Initiative. The Day of Six Billion was established in 1999. The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 in 1964, and in 1960, Khrushchev famously slammed his shoe at the UN. Thatcher narrowly escaped an IRA bombing in 1984. Gore won the Nobel […]
American POWs were released from Vietnam War (1973), Coolidge delivered first radio address (1924), last emperor of China abdicated (1912), women gained right to vote in Utah (1870), Lincoln Memorial cornerstone laid (1914), Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” premiered (1924), San Francisco issued same-sex marriage licenses (2004), Solzhenitsyn exiled from Russia (1974), first spacecraft landed on […]
The first person was cryogenically preserved in 1967, while the US House of Representatives rejected women’s right to vote in 1915. The Charleston Museum was founded in 1773, and Agatha Christie died in 1976. Other events include Henry Ford’s speed record in 1904 and the beginning of the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. The first person […]
