The Moscow-Washington hotline was established in 1963 after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Other events include the attempted assassination of Lenin in 1918, the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1984, and the passing of the Global Warming Solutions Act in California in 2006. Thurgood Marshall became the first black justice of the US Supreme […]
The Cold War ended with a joint statement by George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. The first human heart transplant was performed in 1967. The Ottawa Treaty was signed in 1997, banning landmines. Oberlin College was the first co-educational college in the US. George Washington’s surprise attack on Hessian troops was a turning point in the […]
US drops World Court case against Nicaragua (1985); George McGovern starts presidential campaign (1971); Robert F. Scott reaches South Pole after Roald Amundsen (1912); Mayor of Washington DC Marion Barry arrested on drug charges (1990); Eugene Ely lands aircraft on USS Pennsylvania (1911); Captain Cook discovers Hawaii (1778); German forces resume deportations from Warsaw (1943); […]
Khomeini returned to Iran (1979), Hollywood began as a Christian community (1887), and the Greensboro sit-ins began (1960). Other events include the establishment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (1920) and the debut of “Late Night with David Letterman” (1982). Ayatollah Khomeini has returned to Iran. (1979) Khomeini was in exile for 15 years before […]
Khomeini returned to Iran as religious and political leader for life (1979), the Supreme Court held its first meeting (1790), Hollywood was registered as a community (1887), the Oxford English Dictionary was published (1884), Roanoke was founded (1587), the Greensboro sit-ins began (1960), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was established (1920), Nixon announced his candidacy […]
“The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci was restored and returned to exhibition in 1999. The first full color and sound film, “On with the Show!”, was produced by Warner Brothers in 1929. The Dionne quintuplets, the first known quintuplets to survive infancy, were born in 1934. Amateur pilot Matthew Rust landed in Red Square […]
In 1897, the first drunk driver was arrested in London, fined 25 shillings. In 1977, Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed by guillotine. The Large Hadron Collider fired its first proton beams in 2008. Gunsmoke, the longest-running primetime drama series in American television history, debuted in 1955. Switzerland joined the United Nations as its […]
Donald Duck debuted in 1934 in “The Wise Little Hen.” Heidi Fleiss was arrested in 1993 for pimping and narcotics possession. The Harvard Corporation was founded in 1650. Alice Huyler Ramsey became the first woman to drive across the US in 1909. Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 600th home run in 2008. King Bhumibol Adulyadej […]
The Berlin Wall was built to divide East and West Germany in 1961, while the wall fell in 1989. Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia after a solar eclipse in 1831. Michael Phelps won his 11th Olympic gold medal in 2008, and BMW was founded in 1918. Alfred Hitchcock was born in 1899. […]
Penicillin successfully treated a patient in 1942, leading to its widespread use. The first recorded Town Hall meeting took place in Faneuil Hall in Boston in 1743. Gorbachev was elected president of the USSR in 1990. The FBI established its “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list in 1950. Albert Einstein was born in 1879. Penicillin was […]
Events: Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus discovered (1924), Luther excommunicated (1521), da Vinci tests flying machine (1496), Meiji Restoration begins in Japan (1868), Mussolini assumes dictatorial powers in Italy (1925), Joan of Arc handed over to Bishop Cauchon (1431), Noriega surrenders to US forces (1990), Alaska becomes 50th state (1959), Peanuts comic strip ends (2000), Brooklyn Bridge construction […]
Events throughout history include Paul Revere’s ride warning of British plot (1775), a radio broadcast with no news (1930), Ezra Pound’s release from asylum (1958), the first crossword book published (1924), the Great San Francisco Earthquake (1906), the first stone laid in St. Peter’s Basilica (1506), the Doolittle raids on Tokyo (1942), Joan of Arc’s […]
Jim Jones led a mass murder-suicide of over 900 members of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. Railroads established time zones in North America in 1883, later becoming law in 1918. The first push-button telephone was commercially available in 1963. Spain became a democracy in 1976 after the death of dictator Francisco Franco. William Tell […]
Roosevelt flew to Casablanca in 1943, the Revolutionary War ended in 1784, the Human Be-In began in 1967, Wallace was inaugurated as governor of Alabama in 1963, Japanese Americans were interned in 1942, Monroe married DiMaggio in 1954, Pope Leo X issued a bull against slavery in 1514, the Today Show premiered in 1952, and […]
The House Un-American Activities Committee began in 1938, investigating Communist infiltration. Alse Young was executed for witchcraft in 1647. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published in 1896. The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made in 1908. Feral child Kaspar Hauser was discovered in 1828. The Indian Removal Act […]
Apollo 7 launched with live TV broadcast (1968), DAR founded (1890), Theodore Roosevelt first US President to ride in airplane (1910), Kathryn Sullivan first American woman to walk in space (1984), US Navy’s first major battle fought (1776), Dow Jones hit highest point in US history (2007), Jimmy Carter awarded Nobel Peace Prize (2002), San […]
Hitler became the Fuhrer of Germany (1934), The Beatles played their first US concert (1964), Hungerford Massacre occurred in the UK (1987), Soviet Union jailed American U-2 pilot for espionage (1960), little person played in a Major League Baseball game (1951), first official soap box derby took place (1934), Daguerre presented his photographic process (1839), […]
AOL merged with Time Warner, the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, the London Underground opened, the first major source of oil was discovered in America, Lend-Lease program was introduced, Napoleon divorced Josephine, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River, Common Sense was published, Vatican and US entered into diplomatic relations, and Masterpiece Theater premiered on PBS. […]
The World Trade Center was destroyed by Islamic terrorists in 2001, killing almost 3,000 people. In 2007, Russia tested the largest conventional bomb in history. Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb’s career hit record in 1985. The oldest racetrack in the world, Milwaukee Mile, held its first race in 1903. Dan Rather walked off the set […]
New York City was temporarily declared the US capital in 1788. The hottest temperature on record, 136.04 degrees Fahrenheit, was recorded in Libya in 1922. Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to serve in both the US Senate and House of Representatives in 1948. New York City was temporarily declared the capital of the […]
