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This Day in History for July 5 – The Bikini Debuts and More

Shauna Wright — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:01:56 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1865 – The Salvation Army is founded in London (More info)

1937 – The luncheon meat SPAM is introduced by the Hormel Foods Corporation (More info)

This Day in History for May 29 – World War II Memorial Dedicated and More

Shauna Wright — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:05:07 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original US colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th state (More info)

1942 – Bing Crosby records Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas,’ the best-selling Christmas single in history (More info)

This Day in History for May 2 – Osama bin Laden is Killed and More

Kathy Landin — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:00:13 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1939 – Lou Gehrig establishes a major-league baseball record by playing his 2,130th consecutive game (More info)

1945 – The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin during World War Two (More info)

This Day in History for April 30 – Hitler Commits Suicide and More

Kathy Landin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:00:25 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1803 – France sells the Louisiana territory and adjoining lands to the US as part of the Louisiana Purchase (More info)

1939 – Commercial television makes its official US debut, broadcasting from the Empire State Building at the New York World’s Fair (More info)

This Day in History for April 26 – Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster and More

Shauna Wright — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:00:55 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln (More info)

1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established (More info)

This Day in History for April 20 – Columbine Massacre and More

Shauna Wright — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:05:58 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1861 – Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the US Army in order to command the forces of Virginia (More info)

1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie isolate radium (More info)

This Day in History for April 19 – Oklahoma City Bombing and More

Shauna Wright — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:00:28 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1775 – American Revolutionary War begins (More info)

1897 – The first Boston Marathon is run (More info)

This Day in History for April 18 – Great San Francisco Earthquake and More

Shauna Wright — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:00:19 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is laid (More info)

1775 – Paul Revere rides to warn Massachusetts colonists of the arrival of British troops (More info)

This Day in History for April 17 – Ford Mustang Debuts and More

Shauna Wright — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:00:48 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the ‘Canterbury Tales’ for the first time at the court of Richard II (More info)

1961 – A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro (More info)

This Day in History for April 16 – Cronkite Becomes Anchor and More

Shauna Wright — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:00:09 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1943 – The hallucinogenic effects of LSD are discovered (More info)

1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the ‘CBS Evening News,’ going on to become “the most trusted man in America” (More info)

1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” while incarcerated there for protesting against segregation (More info)

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This Day in History for April 13 – Apollo 13 Disaster and More

Shauna Wright — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:00:15 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art, commonly called the Met, is founded (More info)

1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC, on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth (More info)

This Day in History for April 12 – Civil War Begins and More

Shauna Wright — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:05:00 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1861 – The Civil War begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, SC (More info)

1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office (More info)

This Day in History for April 11 – Idi Amin Deposed and More

Shauna Wright — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:00:08 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates his throne and is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba (More info)

1945 – American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany (More info)

This Day in History for April 4 – MLK Assassinated and More

Shauna Wright — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:45:31 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1818 – The US Congress adopts a flag with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (More info)

1841 – President William Henry Harrison dies from pneumonia just one month after his inauguration (More info)

This Day in History for April 2 – Pope John Paul II Dies and More

Shauna Wright — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:00:09 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida (More info)

1917 – President Woodrow Wilson asks the US Congress for a declaration of war on Germany (More info)

This Day in History for March 29 – US Troops Leave Vietnam and More

Shauna Wright — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:00:08 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1867 – The North America Act is passed by the British parliament, creating the dominion of Canada (More info)

1929 – Herbert Hoover becomes the first president to have a telephone installed in the Oval Office (More info)

This Day in History for March 28 – Three Mile Island Accident and More

Shauna Wright — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:00:37 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1834 – President Andrew Jackson becomes the first president to be censured by Congress (More info)

1939 – The Spanish Civil War ends (More info)

This Day in History for March 27 – FDA Approves Viagra and More

Shauna Wright — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:00:18 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1866 – President Andrew Johnson vetoes a civil rights bill which later becomes the 14th Amendment (More info)

1912 – Japanese cherry trees are planted along the Potomac, giving rise to the annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC (More info)

This Day in History for March 26 – Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty Signed and More

Shauna Wright — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:45:57 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1945 – The battle of Iwo Jima ends (More info)

1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty (More info)

This Day in History for March 23 – Mussolini Founds Facist Movement and More

Shauna Wright — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:00:52 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1775 – Patrick Henry opposes British policy by declaring, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” (More info)

1839 – The initials “O.K.” are first published in the Boston Morning Post (More info)