What to remember about January 19th…
- 1807 Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee born in Virginia (d. 1870); formerly superintendent of U.S. Military Academy
- 1809 American poet and author Edgar Allen Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1849)
- 1861 Georgia joins other Southern states in seceding from the Union
- 1915 German zeppelins bomb Britain; 1st major bombing of civilian targets kill 20 people
- 1920 Despite President Wilson’s efforts, United States Senate votes against America joining the League of Nations
- 1978 Last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany rolls off production line; some minor production continues at South American facilities until 2003
- 1981 Agreement is signed securing release of 52 hostages taken from American Embassy in Teheran, Iran
- 1983 Klaus Barbie, “butcher of Lyon”and Former Nazi Gestapo chief, is arrested in Bolivia for crimes against humanity
- 2006 NASA launches New Horizons probe; 1st mission destined to examine Pluto
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Tagged automotive industry, Aviation, Civil War, Georgia, history, iran, Iran Hostage Crisis, Islam, League of Nations, NASA, Robert E. Lee, Space Exploration, Woodrow Wilson, WWI, WWII
What to remember about January 16th…
- 1861 Crittenden Compromise amendments to the Constitution are defeated in the U.S. Senate ending last effort to prevent the Civil War
- 1919 Ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution is certified; era of Prohibition begins in the United States
- 1945 Adolf Hitler moves into bunker for 105 days; Hitler will marry Eva Braun and commit suicide while underground
- 1970 American inventor and designer Buckminster Fuller is awarded Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects for developing the geodesic dome
- 1979 Violent demonstrations by Islamic radicals and a possible military mutiny force Shah of Iran flees the country; eventually arrives in America
- 1991 After U.N. deadline passes, U.S. and coalition forces launch 1st air attacks of the Persian Gulf War; ground offensive will begin February 24th
- 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia launches on what will be her last voyage; craft will disintegrate on re-entry February 1st
- UPDATE:2017 Eugene Cernan, US Navy pilot and NASA Astronaut, dies in Houston, TX (b. 1934); he was the last man to have walked on the Moon
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Tagged 19th Amendment, Aviation, Civil War, Gulf War, history, iran, Islam, NASA, Space Exploration, WWII
What to remember about November 4th…
- 1842 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois
- 1864 Confederate raiders destroy millions in supplies with bombardment of supply base at Battle of Johnsonville
- 1879 American Humourist Will Rogers is born in Oklahoma
- 1922 Howard Carter discovers entry of the lost tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen in Egypt
- 1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross is wins election in Wyoming; becomes 1st elected female governor of a U.S. state
- 1946 Former First Lady Laura Lane Welch Bush is born in Midland, Texas
- 1956 Soviet tanks and troops invade Hungary; thousands of protesters killed as revolution is crushed
- 1979 Hundreds of Iranians storm U.S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran; 52 of the hostages taken will not be released for 444 days
- 1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by Jewish student opposed to concessions with Arabs
- 2008 Barack Hussein Obama II becomes the 1st half African-American to be elected President of the United States
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Barack Hussein Obama, Civil Rights, Civil War, Communism, history, iran, Iran Hostage Crisis, Israel, Soviet Union, Wyoming
What to remember about July 3rd…
- 1754 George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War
- 1775 George Washington rides before troops in Cambridge, MA; takes command of the Continental Army
- 1863 Pickett’s Charge fails; Battle of Gettysburg ends in Confederate defeat and subsequent withdrawal; General Lee declares “It’s all my fault… Upon my shoulders rests the blame.”
- 1890 Idaho is admitted to the union as the 43rd state
- 1954 WWII food rationing finally ends in Britain
- 1986 President Ronald Reagan rededicated the Statue of Liberty; in his speech he states “We are the keepers of the flame of liberty; we hold it high for the world to see.”
- 1988 USS Vincennes mistakenly shoots down Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf; 290 killed
- 2012 American actor, singer and writer Andrew Samuel “Andy” Griffith dies in at home in North Carolina (b. 1926)
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Tagged American Revolution, Civil War, French and Indian War, George Washington, history, Idaho, iran, Navy, Ronald Reagan, Statue of Liberty, WWII
What to remember about May 17th…
- 1792 New York Stock Exchange is founded when 24 brokers sign agreement under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street in New York
- 1827 At 18 years of age, future 17th President Andrew Johnson marries 16-year-old Eliza McCardle
- 1863 Union troops win Battle of Big Black River forcing Confederates into besieged Vicksburg, Mississippi
- 1943 Flight crew of the Memphis Belle becomes the first B-17 Flying Fortress crew to complete 25 missions over Europe
- 1954 Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional
- 1970 Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl begins sailing a papyrus boat across the Atlantic; proves ancient Africans could have made the trip
- 1974 500 LAPD officers lay siege to hideout of Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA); gun battle and fire leaves 6 terrorists dead; kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst is not found
- 1987 Iraqi Mirage F1 fighter launches 2 Exocet anti-ship missiles at frigate USS Stark killing 37 and wounding 21 during Iran-Iraq War
- 1996 President Clinton signs new “Megan’s Law” requiring states to notify communities when sex offenders move into their area
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Tagged Andrew Johnson, Aviation, Bill Clinton, Civil Rights, Civil War, history, iran, Iraq, Navy, Supreme Court, Wall Street, WWII
What to remember about April 18th…
- 1521 Martin Luther defies Holy Roman Emperor Charles V by refusing to recant his writings during his trial for heresy
- 1775 British troops march out of Boston to confiscate the American arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders at Lexington; Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock
- 1864 Confederate troops overwhelm Union supply train guarded by all black 1st Kansas Infantry; no black soldier left alive by rebel troops
- 1906 At 5:13 a.m., an 8.0 earthquake strikes San Francisco, California; 3000 will die in from subsequent fires and 30,000 buildings lost
- 1912 705 survivors of lost RMS Titanic arrive back in New York
- 1923 Yankee Stadium opens in New York City; the “house that Ruth built” will be home to the team until 2008
- 1942 Lieutenant Colonel James “Jimmy” Doolittle leads raid 1st ever raid of Japanese mainland; 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers launched secretly from aircraft carrier USS Hornet; all bombers lost afterwards and 3 crew killed
- 1945 Pulitzer Prize winning American war correspondent Ernie Pyle is killed by Japanese machine gun fire on Le Shima, Okinawa in the Pacific (b. 1900)
- 1955 While preparing speech to celebrate 7th anniversary of State of Israel, German-American physicist Albert Einstein dies (b. 1879)
- 1961 President Kennedy denies U.S. involvement in failed Bay of Pigs invasion of communist Cuba
- 1983 Muslim homicide bomber kills 63 in attack on U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon; pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad branch of Hezbollah responsible
- 1988 In response to Iranian mining of Persian Gulf and damage to USS Roberts, U.S. Navy begins Operation Praying Mantis as retaliation
- 2007 Supreme Court of the United States upholds Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 in Gonzales v. Carhart
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What to remember about April 11th…
- 1803 French Foreign Minister Talleyrand offers to sell all of Louisiana Territory to the United States
- 1814 Emperor of France Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates throne and is banished to the island of Elba as part of Treaty of Fontainebleau
- 1862 Confederates surrender Fort Pulaski on Savannah River after Union artillery bombardment proves defenses cannot hold
- 1945 U.S. troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp
- 1951 President Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his command for making statements contradicting administration’s policies
- 1970 NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission is launched from Cape Canaveral carrying James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise
- 1979 Brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin flees country as rebels near
- 1981 President Reagan leaves hospital for the White House to recover from March 30th assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr.
- 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that his country has successfully enriched uranium
What to remember about February 16th…
- 1786 Future 5th President of the U.S. James Monroe marries Elizabeth Kortright despite her family lack of money
- 1804 Navy Lieutenant Stephen Decatur and 80 volunteers enter Tripoli harbour in disguised vessel to board the captured USS Philadelphia; they retake and burn her to deny Muslim pirates the prize
- 1862 General Ulysses S. Grant earns nickname “Unconditional Surrender” Grant with capture of Fort Donelson in Tennessee
- 1920 Army Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays is born; 1st woman in the U.S. Military to be promoted to general officer rank
- 1923 After more than 5 years searching, British archaeologist Howard Carter finally enters burial chamber of King Tutankhamen
- 1959 Communist guerilla Fidel Castro sworn in as president of Cuba
- 1960 Nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton leaves Groton, Connecticut to begin worlds 1st submerged circumnavigation of the globe
- 1985 Sheik Ibrahim al-Amin issues manifesto of Hezbollah; Iranian-sponsored terrorist group is officially born after years of secrecy
- 1997 25-year-old Jeff Gordon becomes youngest NASCAR driver to win Daytona 500 race
- 2005 Kyoto Protocols global warming agreement goes into effect after Russian ratification puts number of signatories over the top
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What to remember about February 11th…
- 1812 Massachussets Governor Elbridge Gerry redistricts his state to favor his party; “gerrymandering” is born
- 1847 American inventer and entreprenuer Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan, Ohio (d. 1931) – celebrated as National Inventor’s Day
- 1916 Anarchist, abortion proponent Emma Goldman is arrested for violating Comstock Act; mentor of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger
- 1942 2 German battleships and a heavy cruiser escape French port and British aircraft in “channel dash” to reach a safe port
- 1970 Japan becomes the world’s 4th “space power” with successful launch of satellite into orbit
- 1975 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st woman to head a political party in England when she is elected to lead the Conservatives
- 1979 Iranian revolutionaries topple monarchy and parliment to establish theocratic Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Khomeini
- 1990 South African civil rights activist Nelson Mandella is released after 27 years in prison
- 2006 Vice-President Dick Cheney accidently shoots Texas attorney Harry Whittington and wounds him while they hunt quail together
- UPDATE: 2012 American singer and actress Whitney Houston dies in hotel bathtub in Berevly Hills (b. 1963)
What to remember about February 1st…
- 1790 Supreme Court of the United states meets for 1st time; 6 Justices gather in New York with John Jay presiding as Chief Justice
- 1861 Texas secedes from the Union as Civil War approaches; Governor Sam Houston opposes and predicts defeat for the South
- 1862 American abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe has her work “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” published
- 1942 Voice of America begins live transmissions into Axis territory
- 1948 President Truman signs bill establishing February 1 as National Freedom Day; honors signing of 13th Amendment by President Lincoln
- 1960 4 African-American college students begin sit-in at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C. when they are refused service at “white’s only” counter
- 1978 French film director Roman Polanski flees U.S. after pleading guilty in drugging and sexual assault of 13-year old girl; Switzerland refuses to extradite
- 1979 Debutant bank robber Patty Hearst is released after President Carter commutes her sentence; she will later be pardoned by President Clinton
- 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile
- 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia breaks up while reentering Earth’s atmosphere; all 7 crew are lost – Husband, McCool, Anderson, Brown, Chawla, Clark, Ramon
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