The 27th Amendment to the US Constitution, also known as the Madison Amendment, prevents changes to the salaries of Congress members until after the election of House of Representatives members. It was proposed in 1789 and ratified in 1992 after a slow process. Only five states have not ratified it. The 27th Amendment is an […]
Bugs Bunny debuted in A Wild Hare in 1940, the first of 163 animated shorts. The first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1866, allowing for instant communication between Europe and North America. Nixon faced impeachment proceedings in 1974 due to the Watergate scandal and resigned. The kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh in 1981 […]
The first successful oil well was drilled in the US in 1859. The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted only 45 minutes, the shortest war in history. The Heinkel He 178 became the world’s first jet aircraft in 1939. Krakatoa erupted in 1883, causing 36,000 deaths. Mariner 2 successfully reached Venus in 1962. Edmund Kemper killed his grandparents […]
The Vietnam War ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accord in 1973. John Logie Baird demonstrated the first television in 1926. The National Geographic Society was founded in 1888. The Outer Space Treaty was signed in 1967. Dante was exiled from Florence in 1302 and wrote the Divine Comedy. The University of Georgia […]
The Axis Powers formed in 1940 with Japan, Germany, and Italy signing the Tripartite Pact. Hungary joined later. The Nazis overpowered Poland in 1939, and Mexico gained independence in 1821. The first steam-powered passenger trains operated in 1825, and the Balinese tiger went extinct in 1937. The US Department of Education was approved in 1979. […]
Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White in 1978. Osiris, a planet outside the Solar System, was found to have an atmosphere with water vapor in 2001. Helen Clark became the first woman elected prime minister of New Zealand in 1999. The “Battle of the Washita River” occurred in […]
The bubonic plague hit San Francisco in 1907, but was stopped after a rat-catching drive. Centralia, Pennsylvania has been burning since 1962. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994. The British Navy sank the Bismark in 1941. President Roosevelt declared an unlimited state of emergency on the same day. St. Petersburg was founded in 1703 […]
BTK serial killer pleads guilty to 10 murders in 17 years. The Panic of 1893, the worst economic depression in US history prior to the Great Depression, occurred. The world’s first ATM was installed in England. The do not call list started in the US. The first nuclear power plant in Russia was inaugurated. A […]
Darwin set sail on the HMS Beagle (1831), Fossey was killed in Rwanda (1985), Nation trashed her first bar (1900), ether was first used as an anesthetic (1845), the World Bank was founded (1945), USSR occupied Afghanistan (1979), Greater Poland uprising began (1918), West was banned from radio (1937), Indonesia became independent (1949), and the […]
The NYSE shut down due to a mini stock market crash in 1997, while the first Federalist Paper was published in 1787. NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in 1961, and two Quakers were executed for their beliefs in 1659. Ronald Reagan began his political career in 1964 and tore down the US embassy […]
Mardi Gras celebrations began in New Orleans in 1827, inspired by Parisian celebrations. Sit-down strikes were declared illegal by the Supreme Court in 1939. The Shanghai Communiqué was issued in 1972, a significant step towards a civil relationship between China and the US. Divorce became legal in Ireland in 1997. President George Bush announced the […]
