What to remember about October 29th…
- 1777 After an extended illness John Hancock resigns his post as president of the Continental Congress
- 1863 18 national delegations at meeting in Geneva, Switzerland agree to form the International Red Cross
- 1901 Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President McKinley’ is executed less than 2 months after the shooting in Buffalo, New York
- 1956 In response to Egyptian seizure and nationalization of the Suez Canal, Israel invades Sinai Peninsula
- 1969 1st computer-to-computer link is established, 1st message is sent on ARPANET, precursor of the internet
- 1998 Senator John Glenn returns to space at age 77 aboard shuttle Discovery; in 1962 was 1st American to orbit Earth
- 2004 Al-Jazeera broadcasts tape of Osama bin Laden admitting direct responsibility for attacks of September 11, 2001
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Tagged American Revolution, computers, Congress, Egypt, history, Islam, Israel, John Glenn, John Hancock, NASA, Osama bin Laden, Red Cross, September 11, Space Exploration, Suez Canal, William McKinley
What to remember about September 6th…
- 1757 French general and hero of the American Revolution Marquis de La Fayette is born
- 1847 American author and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1901 President William McKinley is shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Boston; he dies September 14th from infection
- 1972 9 more Israeli athletes and a German police officer are murdered by Palestinian terrorists as the Munich Olympic hostage taking ends
- 1976 Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, Japan to defect to the U.S.
- 1995 Cal Ripken played his 2,131st consecutive professional baseball game beating the record previously held by Lou Gehrig
- 1997 Billions watch the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales; Sir Elton John performs “Candle in the Wind”
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Tagged American Revolution, Aviation, baseball, history, Islam, Lou Gehrig, Marquis de La Fayette, Olympics, Soviet Union, Terrorism, William McKinley
What to remember about January 29th…
- 1843 Future 25th President William McKinley is born Miles, Ohio (d. 1901); succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt after his assassination
- 1845 Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven” is 1st published
- 1861 Kansas enters the Union as the 34th state; slave-free state
- 1886 Karl Benz, founder of Mercedes-Benz, patents the 1st successful gasoline powered automobile
- 1891 Last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani ascends to the throne
- 1936 Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York inducts 1st members: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson
- 1954 American actress, talk show host, and philanthropist Orpah Gail “Oprah” Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi
- 1991 Battle of Khafji is 1st major ground engagement of the Persian Gulf War; Iraqi forces invade Saudi Arabia but are beaten off by coalition forces
- 1998 Bomb explodes at abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama; Centennial Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolf kills 1 and wounds 2
- 2002 President George W. Bush makes “Axis of Evil” State of the Union Address; declares Iraq, Iran, and North Korea major threats to world security
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Tagged abortion, automotive industry, Babe Ruth, baseball, George Bush, Gulf War, Hawaii, history, Iraq, Kansas, Olympics, Terrorism, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley
What to remember about September 14th…
- 1638 American clergyman John Harvard is born in England; donates money and library to sustain New College at Cambridge; school renamed “Harvard” in his honor
- 1847 U.S. forces under Winfield Scott capture Mexico City and raise American flag over the Halls of Montezuma during Mexican-American War
- 1879 Eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger is born in New York (d. 1966)
- 1899 Henry Bliss is 1st person killed by a motor vehicle in the U.S.; he was struck by the electric taxicab the day before
- 1901 President McKinley dies this day of infection after being shot in assassination attempt September 6th; event immortalized in song “White House Blues”
- 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes 26th President of the United States
- 1975 Pope Paul VI canonizes Elizabeth Ann Seton; 1st American-born Catholic saint; founder of the Sisters of Charity
- 1994 Major League Baseball announces the cancellation of remainder of 1994 season and World Series due to ongoing players strike
- 2001 National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks
- 2009 American actor, dancer, and songwriter Patrick Swayze dies
What to remember about September 6th…
- 1757 French general and hero of the American Revolution Marquis de La Fayette is born
- 1847 American author and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1901 President William McKinley is shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Boston; he dies September 14th from infection
- 1972 9 more Israeli athletes and a German police officer are murdered by Palestinian terrorists as the Munich Olympic hostage taking ends
- 1976 Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, Japan to defect to the U.S.
- 1995 Cal Ripken played his 2,131st consecutive professional baseball game beating the record previously held by Lou Gehrig
- 1997 Billions watch the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales; Sir Elton John performs “Candle in the Wind”
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Tagged American Revolution, Aviation, baseball, Cold War, Communism, history, Islam, Israel, Lou Gehrig, Marquis de La Fayette, Olympics, Soviet Union, Terrorism, William McKinley
What to remember about April 20th…
- 1775 Following battles at Lexington and Concord, British troops begin siege of Boston, Massachusetts
- 1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the U.S. army after his home state of Virginia secedes; refuses offer of command of the Union army
- 1871 Congress authorizes President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other terrorist groups with passage of the Third Force Act
- 1889 Murderous, national-socialist dictator Adolf Hitler is born in Austria (d. 1945)
- 1898 President William McKinley asks Congress for declaration of war against Spain; U.S. to aid rebels in Cuba and Puerto Rico
- 1916 Chicago Cubs defeat Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 1st game played at Weeghman Park; renamed Wrigley Field in 1918
- 1980 Castro announces that Cubans who wish to emigrate to America are free to find passage; Mariel Boatlift will carry 125,000 refugees
- 1999 Teenage gunmen Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado
- 2008 26-year-old Danica Patrick becomes 1st woman to win an Indy race with victory at Japan 300
- 2010 British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in Gulf of Mexico causing oil spill that lasts 6-months
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Tagged American Revolution, baseball, Chicago Cubs, Civil War, Cuba, Fidel Castro, history, Ku Klux Klan, Oil, Puerto Rico, Robert E. Lee, Terrorism, Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley
What to remember about January 29th…
- 1843 Future 25th President William McKinley is born Miles, Ohio (d. 1901); succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt after his assassination
- 1845 Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven” is 1st published
- 1861 Kansas enters the Union as the 34th state; slave-free state
- 1886 Karl Benz, founder of Mercedes-Benz, patents the 1st successful gasoline powered automobile
- 1891 Last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani ascends to the throne
- 1936 Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York inducts 1st members: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson
- 1954 American actress, talk show host, and philanthropist Orpah Gail “Oprah” Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi
- 1991 Battle of Khafji is 1st major ground engagement of the Persian Gulf War; Iraqi forces invade Saudi Arabia but are beaten off by coalition forces
- 1998 Bomb explodes at abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama; Centennial Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolf kills 1 and wounds 2
- 2002 President George W. Bush makes “Axis of Evil” State of the Union Address; declares Iraq, Iran, and North Korea major threats to world security
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Tagged abortion, automotive industry, Babe Ruth, baseball, George Bush, Gulf War, Hawaii, history, Iraq, Kansas, Olympics, Terrorism, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley
What to remember about October 29th…
- 1777 After an extended illness John Hancock resigns his post as president of the Continental Congress
- 1863 18 national delegations at meeting in Geneva, Switzerland agree to form the International Red Cross
- 1901 Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President McKinley’ is executed less than 2 months after the shooting in Buffalo, New York
- 1956 In response to Egyptian seizure and nationalization of the Suez Canal, Israel invades Sinai Peninsula
- 1969 1st computer-to-computer link is established, 1st message is sent on ARPANET, precursor of the internet
- 1998 Senator John Glenn returns to space at age 77 aboard shuttle Discovery; in 1962 was 1st American to orbit Earth
- 2004 Al-Jazeera broadcasts tape of Osama bin Laden admitting direct responsibility for attacks of September 11, 2001
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Tagged American Revolution, computers, Congress, Egypt, history, Islam, Israel, John Glenn, John Hancock, NASA, Osama bin Laden, Red Cross, September 11, Space Exploration, Suez Canal, William McKinley
What to remember about September 14th…
- 1638 American clergyman John Harvard is born in England; donates money and library to sustain New College at Cambridge; school renamed “Harvard” in his honor
- 1847 U.S. forces under Winfield Scott capture Mexico City and raise American flag over the Halls of Montezuma during Mexican-American War
- 1879 Eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger is born in New York (d. 1966)
- 1899 Henry Bliss is 1st person killed by a motor vehicle in the U.S.; he was struck by the electric taxicab the day before
- 1901 President McKinley dies this day of infection after being shot in assassination attempt September 6th; event immortalized in song “White House Blues”
- 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes 26th President of the United States
- 1975 Pope Paul VI canonizes Elizabeth Ann Seton; 1st American-born Catholic saint; founder of the Sisters of Charity
- 1994 Major League Baseball announces the cancellation of remainder of 1994 season and World Series due to ongoing players strike
- 2001 National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks
- 2009 American actor, dancer, and songwriter Patrick Swayze dies
What to remember about September 6th…
- 1757 French general and hero of the American Revolution Marquis de La Fayette is born
- 1847 American author and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1901 President William McKinley is shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Boston; he dies September 14th from infection
- 1972 9 more Israeli athletes and a German police officer are murdered by Palestinian terrorists as the Munich Olympic hostage taking ends
- 1976 Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, Japan to defect to the U.S.
- 1995 Cal Ripken played his 2,131st consecutive professional baseball game beating the record previously held by Lou Gehrig
- 1997 Billions watch the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales; Sir Elton John performs “Candle in the Wind”
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged American Revolution, Aviation, baseball, Cold War, Communism, history, Islam, Israel, Lou Gehrig, Marquis de La Fayette, Olympics, Soviet Union, Terrorism, William McKinley
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