The temperance movement led to the 18th Amendment, which banned the sale and transportation of alcohol in the US. This led to a black market and increased crime. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th, making alcohol legal again. It was ratified by state convention and remains the only amendment to repeal an earlier one. During […]
Edison lit the first light bulb (1879), a kamikaze attack occurred (1944), Von Braun transferred to NASA (1959), Eris photographed (2003), Medicine Lodge treaties signed (1867), North Korea nuclear deal made (1994), Vietnam War protests (1967), USS Constitution launched (1797), Magellan discovered strait (1520), Nightingale sent to Crimean War (1854). Thomas Edison lit a light […]
The US Constitution was ratified by New Hampshire in 1788. KKK members killed civil rights activists in 1964. John Hinkley Jr. was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982 for shooting President Reagan. Josef Mengele’s skeleton was identified in 1985. Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905. The WNBA debuted its first game in […]
ARPNET, the first internet network, was established in 1969. Rebecca L. Felton became the first woman to serve in the US Senate in 1922. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened in 1964. The first balloon flight took place in 1783. Oliver North ordered the destruction of incriminating documents in 1986. Einstein’s research on E=mc2 was published in […]
Frenchman Louis Rigolly broke the world land speed record in 1904, driving at 103.561 miles per hour. Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the record again in 1925, driving at 150.33 miles per hour. Other events include the lowest temperature on record in 1983, the first train robbery in the American Old West in 1873, and the […]
Roosevelt urged Congress to repeal Neutrality Acts to help European nations facing Nazi Germans. France abolished monarchy. B-29 bomber made its debut and was used to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines. Investment banks became traditional holding companies. Women were admitted to the Military Institute of Virginia. Congress granted $15 […]
The first rock and roll concert was held in 1952, the Selma to Montgomery march began in 1965, the US boycotted the Moscow Olympics in 1980, Alcatraz prison closed in 1963, the first Earth Day was in 1970, and Otto von Bismarck came to power in Germany in 1871. The first rock and roll concert […]
Important events in history: dried blood serum produced (1933), John Gacy arrested (1978), first manned lunar mission launched (1968), radium discovered (1898), Irish Republic declared independence (1948), Snow White debuted (1937), first crossword puzzle published (1913), Elvis offers services to Nixon in War on Drugs (1970), It’s a Wonderful Life previewed (1946), Vespasian becomes fourth […]
Black Monday caused the Great Recession in 2008, while other events include the conviction of Alger Hiss, the pardoning of draft dodgers by President Carter, and the deaths of Vladimir Lenin and King Louis XVI. Other events include the launch of the Concorde and the first atomic submarine, as well as the beginning of the […]
Nixon visited Beijing, Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto, Malcolm X was assassinated, the Arrowbile flew, the Battle of Verdun began, Ames was arrested, NASCAR was incorporated, the Polaroid camera was demonstrated, Kissinger began secret negotiations with North Vietnam, and the last Carolina Parakeet died. Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing. (1972) The visit was […]
Hawaii became the 50th US state in 1959. The American Bar Association was founded in 1878, the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Benigno S. Aquino Jr. was assassinated in 1983. The Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911, Oldsmobile was founded in 1897, and Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. […]
The American Red Cross was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons. Other events include Lindbergh and Earhart’s transatlantic flights, the founding of FIFA, and Susan Lucci’s Daytime Emmy win. The American Red Cross was born. (1881) Clara Barton, a nurse known as “the angel of the battlefield”, and Adolphus Solomons founded the […]
Henry VIII became king of England and oversaw the split of the Anglican church. Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus. Student protests in Tiananmen Square led to the Tiananmen Square massacre. The Hutt River Province seceded from Australia. Maryland declared freedom of religion for all Christians. The film projector was first introduced in the […]
