Jackson was censured for dismantling the Bank of the United States. The Spanish Civil War ended with Franco’s victory. Three Mile Island nuclear disaster occurred. The first washing machine was patented. Asteroid 2 Pallas was discovered. Fairbanks and Pickford got married. The Paris Commune was established. Virginia Woolf died. Over a million people rioted in […]
BTK killer sentenced to 175 years in prison (2005), South Africa banned from Olympics due to apartheid policies (1964), Hitler temporarily halted euthanasia program (1941), helium discovered (1868), first person of color graduates from University of Mississippi (1963), women gain right to vote in US (1920), French priest burned at stake for witchcraft (1634), first […]
Supreme Court ruled tomatoes as vegetables in 1893, Rutherford B. Hayes had the first phone installed in the White House in 1877, and the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. Other events include Victoria Woodhall becoming the first female presidential nominee, FBI agent Robert Hanssen’s life sentence for selling secrets, J. Edgar Hoover becoming acting […]
Events: Earth passed through Halley’s Comet (1910), “separate but equal” doctrine upheld (1896), Aimee Semple McPherson goes missing (1926), Mount St. Helens erupts (1980), TVA created (1933), Beijing protest (1989), Dracula published (1897), Lincoln nominated for president (1860), Jackie Cochran breaks sound barrier (1953), Les Miserables closes on Broadway (2003). Earth passed through the tail […]
Kennedy declared solidarity with Berliners in 1963, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter took off in 1936, Christmas became a federal holiday in the US in 1870, and the US Supreme Court ruled against gay sex bans and forced the Virginia Military Institute to admit women in 2003 and 1996 respectively. The Pied Piper story occurred […]
The US detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate President Truman in 1950, and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco was opened for public exhibition for the first time in 1512. Other events include the Mackinac Bridge opening in 1957 and the world’s largest radio telescope being used for the […]
Choosing the right event planning internship involves considering the type of event planning one is interested in, even if it’s not directly related. Interning at a larger company provides experience with large-scale events, while smaller companies offer more opportunities to work with higher-ups and potentially land a job. To choose the best event planning stage, […]
Important events in history: Gettysburg Address delivered (1863), Jay Treaty signed (1794), Reagan-Gorbachev summit (1985), HMAS Sydney sunk (1941), Apollo 12 lands on moon (1969), Pennzoil wins lawsuit against Texaco (1985), Sixth Loan War announced (6), British National Lottery begins (1994), Bonnie and Clyde’s first robbery (1930), Milli Vanilli lose Grammy for lip-syncing (1990). The […]
The USSR withdrew from Afghanistan in 1988, the first airplane stewardess started working in 1930, a train disaster was averted in Ohio in 2001, and the National Woman Suffrage Association was founded in 1869. Gasoline rationing began in 17 US states in 1942, the Seven Years War started in 1756, the first machine gun was […]
The US Army was founded in 1775. Auschwitz opened in 1940, becoming the largest concentration camp with an estimated three million deaths during WWII. The US flag was adopted in 1777, and bourbon was first distilled in 1789. The Marihuana Tax Act was passed in 1937, making the drug illegal. Superman was introduced in 1938, […]
Amelia Earhart flew over the Atlantic, later disappeared. Statue of Liberty arrived in US as a gift from France. Watergate burglars arrested, led to Nixon’s resignation. OJ Simpson arrested for murder. Population Registration Act repealed in South Africa. Union Station massacre occurred. Supreme Court ruled against Bible verses in school. Republican Party held first convention. […]
The US dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, killing 39,000 people. Charles Manson killed Sharon Tate and four others. Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 life sentences for the Oklahoma City bombing. Work on the Leaning Tower of Pisa began. Bridgestone/Firestone recalled 6.5 million tires linked to 46 deaths. Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the […]
Marilyn Monroe died from a drug overdose, IRA members were sentenced to prison, the first electric traffic light was installed, Marie Noe was accused of killing her children, Reagan fired air traffic controllers, Bertha Benz made the first long-distance car trip, income tax was introduced, the Mayflower set off for North America, caning was abolished […]
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 […]
April Fool’s Day became popular in England in the early 1700s. Nixon banned cigarette advertising in 1970, Hitler was sent to prison in 1924, and the BBC aired a spoof documentary about spaghetti trees in 1957. Cincinnati paid its firefighters a salary in 1853, and the internal combustion engine was patented in 1826. Apple was […]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a dream” speech to 250,000 civil rights protesters in Washington D.C. in 1963, influencing the movement. Other events include the first TV broadcast in Japan (1953), the first radio commercial in the US (1922), and the founding of Pepsi-Cola (1898). Women picketed President Woodrow Wilson for […]
Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed by the US Air Force in 2006. Gandhi committed his first act of disobedience in 1893, while the use of contraception for married couples was legalized in the US in 1965. The first successful ascent of Mt. McKinley was achieved in 1913, and Homer Plessy’s arrest led to […]
Truman announced the US lost its nuclear monopoly, as Soviet Union detonated a nuclear bomb in 1949. Greeks gained independence from Ottoman Empire in 1821. John Paul Jones won “Battle of Flamborough Head” in 1779. Harvard College graduated its first students in 1642. Neptune was discovered in 1846. First gas chamber tests were carried out […]
Shakespeare’s birth and death are celebrated on the same day, Sirhan Sirhan received the death penalty for assassinating Robert Kennedy, the first McDonald’s in Beijing opened, Boston Latin School was established, “New Coke” was unpopular, Judy Garland played Carnegie Hall, George and Martha Washington moved into the first executive mansion, the first video was uploaded […]
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 […]
