Today in History

November 15, 2016 Leave a comment


AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1777

Articles of Confederation adopted »

AUTOMOTIVE

1965

Craig Breedlove sets new land-speed record »

CIVIL WAR

1864

The March to the Sea begins »

COLD WAR

1957

Nikita Khrushchev challenges United States to a missile “shooting match” »

CRIME

1923

Accused of rape, James Montgomery’s struggle for justice begins »

DISASTER

1978

Plane crashes into Sri Lankan plantation »

GENERAL INTEREST

1889

Brazil’s last emperor deposed »

1891

Erwin Rommel is born »

1984

Baby Fae dies »

HOLLYWOOD

1956

Elvis makes movie debut in Love Me Tender »

LITERARY

1859

Final installment of A Tale of Two Cities is published »

MUSIC

1943

Leonard Bernstein’s Philharmonic debut makes front-page news »

OLD WEST

1806

Zebulon Pike spots an imposing mountain »

PRESIDENTIAL

1977

President Carter hosts shah of Iran »

SPORTS

1965

Craig Breedlove sets new land-speed record »

VIETNAM WAR

1966

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs heckled at university »

1969

Second moratorium against the war held »

WORLD WAR I

1917

Georges Clemenceau named French prime minister »

WORLD WAR II

1943

Himmler orders Gypsies to concentration camps »

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Today in History

October 5, 2016 Leave a comment


AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1775

Washington informs Congress of espionage »

AUTOMOTIVE

1919

Enzo Ferrari makes his debut as a race car driver »

CIVIL WAR

1864

Battle of Allatoona »

COLD WAR

1986

Iran-Contra scandal unravels »

CRIME

1892

The Dalton gang performs their last robbery attempt »

DISASTER

1930

Blimp crashes in France »

GENERAL INTEREST

1813

Tecumseh defeated »

1877

Chief Joseph surrenders »

1969

Cuban defector lands MiG in Miami »

1974

American circumnavigates the globe on foot »

1989

Dalai Lama wins Peace Prize »

2011

Apple founder Steve Jobs dies »

HOLLYWOOD

1990

Henry & June is first NC-17 film »

LITERARY

1978

Isaac Singer wins Nobel Prize »

MUSIC

1991

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch earn a #1 hit with “Good Vibrations” »

OLD WEST

1892

The Dalton Gang is wiped out in Coffeyville, Kansas »

PRESIDENTIAL

1829

Chester Arthur is born »

SPORTS

1953

Yanks win their fifth series in a row »

VIETNAM WAR

1963

South Vietnamese generals plan coup »

1964

President Johnson under fire from his own party »

WORLD WAR I

1915

Britain and France commit troops to operation in Salonika, Greece »

WORLD WAR II

1942

Stalingrad must not be taken by the enemy. »

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September 26, 2014 Leave a comment


1789

Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s first Secretary of State.

1820

Frontiersman, Daniel Boone, died in Missouri.

1914

The Federal Trade Commission was established.

1950

United Nations troops recaptured Seoul, the capital of South Korea, from the North Koreans.

1960

Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took part in the first televised presidential debate.

1986

William H. Rehnquist was sworn as the 16th chief justice of the Supreme Court.

 

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