The Sixteenth Amendment to the US Constitution allows Congress to collect income taxes without apportionment among states or regard to census. It is controversial due to differing interpretations and constitutionality concerns, with some arguing it limits income taxes to indirect taxes. Income taxes are important for funding public programs, but controversial due to the progressive […]
The Persian Gulf War began with US and British forces attacking Iraq after the UN deadline expired. Other events include Prohibition in the US, outlawing of Catholicism in England, publication of Don Quixote, Hitler moving into the Fuhrerbunker, Soyuz spaceships docking in space, the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, the Shah of Iran fleeing, Buckminster Fuller […]
The term “Cold War” was coined by Bernard Baruch in 1947. The Texas City disaster occurred in the same year, LSD was found to be hallucinogenic in 1943, and slavery became illegal in the District of Columbia in 1862. Walter Cronkite became the anchor of “The CBS Evening News” in 1962, Apollo 16 launched in […]
US-Soviet diplomatic relations established (1933); Benazir Bhutto elected first female Muslim leader (1988); Venera 3 lands on Venus (1965); Oklahoma becomes 46th US state (1907); Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act signed (1973); Skylab 4 launched (1973); Dostoyevsky sentenced to death (1849); US secretly brings German scientists to develop rocket technology (1945); Clinton visits Vietnam (2000); Allies […]
Mississippi ratified the 13th amendment in 1995, 130 years after it was ratified by 27 other states. Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by rearming Germany in 1935. Samoset, a Mohegan warrior, shocked colonists in 1621 by speaking English. Robert Goddard launched the first liquid fuel rocket in 1926. The My Lai massacre took place […]
China detonated a nuclear bomb (1964), the US authorized the war in Iraq (2002), the Long March began in China (1934), the last smallpox diagnosis was made (1975), the Million Man March took place in Washington DC (1995), the Nazis established the Warsaw Ghetto (1940), Britain announced plans to ban handguns after the Dunblane massacre […]
The Aztec empire was overthrown by Spanish conquistadors in 1521, and epidemics wiped out 80% of the population within 50 years. A team of paleopathologists identified a deadly strain of Salmonella enterica, Paratyphi C, as the cause of the outbreaks, likely brought to Mexico by the Spanish and spread through infected food or water. The […]
The Battle of the Bulge began, the Boston Tea Party took place, Einstein published his Theory of General Relativity, Vasco de Gama reached India, Venera 7 landed on Venus, Truman declared a state of emergency, the death penalty was abolished in the UK, Rasputin was assassinated, Peter Rabbit was published, and the first White House […]
Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed in Detroit, killing all but one passenger, a 4-year-old girl. Elvis Presley died of a heart attack in 1977. Sports Illustrated published its first issue in 1954. A solar flare halted the Toronto stock market in 1989. John Tyler’s effigy was burned on the White House lawn in 1841. Joseph […]
The first roller coaster was installed in Brooklyn in 1884, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space in 1963, Roosevelt’s New Deal began in 1933, the first commercial aircraft hijacking occurred in 1948, Ford Motor Co. was incorporated in 1903, Bob Dylan recorded “Like a Rolling Stone” in 1965, Geronimo was born in 1829, […]
The Surgeon General’s report declared nicotine as addictive as cocaine (1988), the Cultural Revolution began in China (1966), the first Academy Awards were held (1929), Andrew Johnson was acquitted of impeachment charges (1868), Edgar Allen Poe married his cousin (1836), root beer was invented (1866), Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette met for the first time […]
The first 911 call was made in 1968. Nylon was patented in 1937 by Wallace H. Carothers. Fidel Castro became Prime Minister of Cuba in 1959. The first computer bulletin board system went online in 1978. Kim Jong-il was born in 1941. Other events include Joseph Stalin scolding the UN in 1951, NBC airing its […]
The Mayflower sailed to Virginia but landed in Massachusetts due to storms. The Oklahoma land rush saw settlers claim Native American land. President Ford offered amnesty to Vietnam War draft dodgers. The Montreal Protocol aimed to protect the ozone layer. Gandhi fasted to protest British class policies. A car bomb on Wall Street killed 38 […]
