Today in History - June 16, 2024
Arthur Meighen, Ford Motor Company, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), American publisher Katharine Graham, The Lausanne Conference, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova, Afrikaans Language, (2012) Liu Yang Chinese woman astronaut, German politician Helmut Kohl
Today in History - June 15, 2024
Magna Carta, Battle of Kosovo, George Washington, Charles Goodyear, The Oregon Treaty, Austrian contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Arlington National Cemetery, WWII-Saipan, American singer Ella Fitzgerald, American game show host Bob Barker
1
view
Today in History - June 14, 2024
Oliver Cromwell, Battle of the Dunes, Stars and Stripes U.S. Flag, Battle of Marengo, Battle of Friedland, American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, Che Guevara, Germany enters Paris, Auschwitz, Soviet spacecraft Vostok 5, Falkland Islands War, Phil Jackson
9
views
Today in History - June 13, 2024
Alexander the Great, Irish writer William Butler Yeats, Congress of Berlin, Louis II of Bavaria, Finnish track athlete Paavo Nurmi, Summit Mount McKinley, Miranda vs. Arizona, Thurgood Marshall, Pentagon Papers, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, North and South Korea, Michael Jackson, President Donald Trump
7
views
1
comment
Today in History - June 12, 2024
The Act of Settlement,Battle of Jajau, Virginia Declaration of Rights, The Philippines, George H.W. Bush, Baseball Hall of Fame, American Bandleader Chick Corea, Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers, Loving vs. Virginia, "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" President Ronald Reagan, Volcano Mount Pinatubo, Boris Yeltsin, Gregory Peck, U.S. mass shooting
12
views
Today in History - June 11, 2024
Henry VIII, Maria Theresa of Austria, American politician Jeannette Rankin, Hundred Days of Reform, Race horse Sir Barton, Aviator Charles Lindbergh, Ben Hogan, "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial", Timothy McVeigh, TV Series "American Idol", 19th World Cup Tournament, American actress Rudy Dee
4
views
Today in History - June 10, 2024
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, Withes in Salem Village, British revenue cutter Gaspee, French painter Gustave Courbet, German opera "Tristan und Isolde", Serbian Prince Michael III, American biologist E.O. Wilson, Benito Mussolini, James Earl Ray, HBO's "The Sopranos", Gordie Howe
3
views
Today in History - June 9, 2024
The Jacquerie, English engineer George Stephenson, Congress of Vienna, Charles Dickens, Cole Porter, German Erwin Rommel, Village of Lidice, Racehorse Secretariat, Margaret Thatcher, Ken Griffey Jr.
2
views
1
comment
Today in History - June 8, 2024
Muhammad, Richard I, Michelangelo's "David",King of Hungary Franz Joseph, Biophysicist Francis Crick, British author George Orwell, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, NFL and AFL merge, Kenye West, Serena Williams, World Oceans Day, Anthony Bourdain
8
views
Today in History - June 7, 2024
Treaty of Tordesillas, Henry VIII of England, English navigator Martin Frobisher, Reform Act of 1832, Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, The Lateran Treaty, Griswold vs State of Connecticut, English novelist E.M. Forster, Elvis Presley's Graceland, Iraqi militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
7
views
Today in History - June 6, 2024
Pope Gregory XV, Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), Chicago's Loop train line, Chrysler Corporation, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Normandy Invasion, Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg, Israel invaded Lebanon, TV Show "Sex and the City", American actress Phylicia Rashad, Racehorse American Pharoah
4
views
Today in History - June 5, 2024
Social philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, Denmark, Economist John Maynard Keynes, Canadian politician Joe Clark, The Marshall Plan, WWII-Rome, Six-Day War, Robert F. Kennedy, AIDS, President Ronald Reagan, American author Ray Bradbury
22
views
Today in History - June 4, 2024
Hot-air balloon, Napoleon Bonaparte, British Field Marshall Garnet Joseph Wolseley, British suffragette Emily Davison, The Nineteenth Amendment, WWI-Treaty of Trianon, Shopping carts, Dunkirk evacuation ended, WWII-Battle of Midway, Kingdom of Tonga, Actress Angelina Jolie, Bruce Springsteen, American basketball coach John Wooden
13
views
Today in History - June 3, 2024
Jefferson Davis, Great auks, American Civil War-Battle of Cold Harbor, Physician Charles Richard Drew, American poet Allen Ginsberg, Lou Gehrig, Prince Edward marries, Zoot Suit Riots, Astronaut Ed White, Larry King Live, Iranian Shi'i cleric Ruhollah Khomeini, Tiananmen Square, Australian activist Eddie Koiki Mabo, Musical "The Producers", Montenegro, Boxer Muhammad Ali
11
views
1
comment
Today in History - June 2, 2024
Marquis de Sade, English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, American Civil War, First Lady Frances Folsom, Constantine II Greece, Lou Gehrig, Italy Republic, Elizabeth II England, Timothy McVeigh, Bo Diddley
4
views
Today in History - June 1, 2024
French Revolutionary War-Battle of the First of June, Aviation engineer Frank Whittle, Marilyn Monroe, Sukarno-Pancasila, Charles de Gaulle, Helen Keller, Cable News Network-Ted Turner, Light Pollution-Czeck Republic, General Motors, Conan O'Brien
1
view
Today in History - May 31, 2024
Copyright Law, Walt Whitman, Worst natural disaster in America, Boer War-Peace of Vereeniging, Louis Botha, WWI-Battle of Jutland, The Tulsa race riots massacre, Joe Namath, Adolf Eichmann, The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, FBI official Mark Felt, Titanic-Millvina Dean
4
views
Today in History - May 30, 2024
Peasant's Revolt, Joan of Arc, Andrew Jackson, Treaties of Paris, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Benny Goodman, Indianapolis 500, The Lincoln Memorial, May Thirtieth Incident, British Royal Air Force, Rafael Trujillo, Charles Taylor
4
views
Today in History - May 29, 2024
Ottomans, Battle of Samugarh, Patrick Henry, Wisconsin, Composer and virtuoso pianist Isaac Albeniz, Russo-Japanese War-Battle of Tsushima, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas", Mount Everest summited, Space Shuttle Discovery, Manuel Noriega
4
views
Today in History - May 28, 2024
Crusader rule ends, George I-Hanoverian King of Great Britain, The Federalist Papers, Napoleon, Indian Removal Act, American athlete Jim Thorpe, The Dionne Quintuplets, Volkswagen, Neville Chamberlain, Amnesty International, Pakistan, Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper", American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou
11
views
Today in History - May 27, 2024
Treaty of Copenhagen, Founding of St. Petersburg, American author and lecturer Julia Ward Howe, Pennzoil Company, American biologist Rachel Carson, Hubert Humphrey, American short-story writer and novelist John Cheever (year 1912 not 2012), Walt Disney's "The Three Little Pigs", WWII-German Battleship Bismarck, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, British punk band The Sex Pistols, Uffizi Gallery, Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Canadian ice hockey player Maurice "Rocket" Richard, American writer Larry Kramer
2
views
Today in History - May 26, 2024
Martin Luther, Samuel Pepys, U.S. President Andrew Johnson, The Challenger Expedition, American photographer Dorothea Lange, Irish writer Bram Stoker, John Wayne, Actors' Equity Association, Jazz musician Miles Davis, Ford Motor Company Model T, House Un-American Activities Committee, WWII-British evacuate Dunkirk France, Guyana Independence, Sydney Pollack
5
views
Today in History - May 25, 2024
U.S. Constitutional Convention, Municipal Council of Buenos Aires, American entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky, Irish writer Oscar Wilde, Jesse Owens, Babe Ruth, Abdullah I, President John F. Kennedy, "Midnight Cowboy", "Star Wars", The Oprah Winfrey Show, George Floyd
3
views
Today in History - May 24, 2024
The Toleration Act, Battle of Pichincha, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Abolitionists John Brown, Brooklyn Bridge Irish author William Trevor, Coin controlled parking meter, Bob Dylan, Operation Greenhouse, Eurovision Song Contest, World Trade Center, Israel
3
views
Today in History - May 23, 2024
Joan of Arc, The Defenestration of Prague, War of the Spanish Succession-Battle of Ramillies, Swedish botanist and explorer Carolus Linnaeus, WWI-Italy, Bonnie and Clyde, Tibet annexed by China, "The Shining", American rapper Eminem, American mathematician John Nash
9
views