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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 12:00:58 +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 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 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 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 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)

This Day in History for March 21 – Selma Civil Rights March and More

Shauna Wright — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:00:32 +0000

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

1804 – Napoleonic Code is approved in France, giving the country its first post-revolutionary set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights (More info)

1963 – Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closes down and transfers its last prisoners (More info)

This Day in History for March 20 – Lennon Marries Ono and More

Shauna Wright — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:00:14 +0000

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

1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ is published (More info)

1854 – Members of the Whig Party splinter off into a new group they call the Republican Party (More info)

This Day in History for March 19 – Nevada Legalizes Gambling and More

Shauna Wright — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:00:41 +0000

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

1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (More info)

1931 – The Nevada legislature legalizes gambling in an attempt to lift the state out of the hard times caused by the Great Depression (More info)

This Day in History for April 16 – Oliver North Indicted and More

Shauna Wright — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:00:42 +0000

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

1968 – American troops kill between 200 and 500 Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre (More info)

1935 – Adolf Hitler cancels the military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (More info)

This Day in History for March 15 – Ides of March and More

Shauna Wright — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:00:43 +0000

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

44 BC – On the “Ides of March,” Julius Caesar is stabbed to death in the senate house by a group of conspirators led by Cimber, Casca, Cassius, and Marcus Junius Brutus (More info)

1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas (More info)

This Day in History for March 14 – JFK Moved to Arlington and More

Shauna Wright — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 +0000

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

1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin (More info)

1950 – The FBI’s institutes the ‘Ten Most Wanted’ list in an effort to spotlight dangerous fugitives (More info)

This Day in History for March 13 – Uranus Discovered and More

Shauna Wright — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:00:07 +0000

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

1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun (More info)

1865 – The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African-American troops (More info)

This Day in History for March 12 – Girl Scouts Founded and More

Shauna Wright — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:00:38 +0000

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

1912 – The Girl Guides — later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA — are founded (More info)

1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation in the first of his “fireside chats” (More info)

This Day in History for March 8 – VW Bus Manufactured and More

Shauna Wright — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:00:34 +0000

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

1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded (More info)

1948 – The Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the US Constitution (More info)

This Day in History for March 1 – Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped and More

Shauna Wright — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:00:16 +0000

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

1781 – The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation (More info)

1790 – The first United States census is authorized (More info)