OJ Simpson’s gloves didn’t fit, leading to his acquittal. Lou Gehrig played his first baseball game and later died of a disease named after him. Arkansas became a state with a pronunciation debate. Ella Fitzgerald died, and the Boy Scouts of America were incorporated. Arlington National Cemetery was established, and Rembrandt’s painting Danae was attacked. […]
AIDS epidemic recognized by medical professionals in 1981, LP record introduced in 1948, Paul McCartney born in 1942, War of 1812 begins, Susan B. Anthony fined for attempting to vote in 1873, Sally Ride becomes first female astronaut in 1983, Unabomber indicted in 1996, International Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948, Charles Darwin prompted […]
CBS aired the first color television broadcast in 1951, but lost the color system war to RCA. The Beatles performed “All You Need Is Love” in the first global live broadcast in 1967. Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” died in 2009 from a drug overdose. Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive […]
The US Supreme Court upheld Miranda’s rights in 1966, Rhode Island banned slavery in 1774, and the first spacecraft left our solar system in 1983. Other events include the first car race in Paris in 1895, the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice to the US Supreme Court in 1967, and the […]
The Tiananmen Square massacre ended a seven-week protest in China, while Henry Ford tested his first car in 1896. The US Congress passed the 19th amendment in 1919, and the first Pulitzer prizes were awarded in 1917. The patent for the ATM was granted in 1973, and the Montgolfier brothers demonstrated the hot air balloon […]
Father’s Day was first celebrated in 1910, slavery was outlawed in US territories in 1862, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination and allowed black citizens to vote, the Rosenburgs were executed for espionage in 1953, the first official baseball game was played in 1846, the FCC was established in 1934, the first Juneteenth […]
D-Day invasion began with 155,000 Allied troops landing on Normandy coast (1944). US Securities and Exchange Commission created (1934). Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated (1968). Chrysler Corporation founded (1925). First US gas tax created (1932). First drive-in theater opens (1933). Basketball Association of America formed (1946). Bob Barker ends run as host of Price is […]
James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin, was caught in London in 1968. The US Supreme Court ruled that refusing service based on race is a crime in 1953. The PHP programming language was introduced in 1995. Other events include the retirement of Mickey Mantle’s uniform, the death of the Prophet Mohammed, and the […]
GM filed for bankruptcy in 2009, while CNN made its first broadcast in 1980. The UK implemented mandatory driving tests in 1935, and the Heimlich maneuver was published in 1974. James Clark Ross discovered the North Magnetic Pole in 1831, and Kentucky became the 15th state while Tennessee became the 16th state of the United […]
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