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Post by LuLu on Jul 22, 2012 9:44:12 GMT -5
Today in History
On July 22, 1862,
President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
In 1587,
an English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
In 1796,
Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland (correct).
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Post by LuLu on Jul 23, 2012 13:04:30 GMT -5
Today In History
On July 23, 1962,
the first public TV transmissions over Telstar 1 took place during a special program featuring live shots beamed from the United States to Europe, and vice versa.
In 1885,
Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.
In 1886,
a legend was born as Steve Brodie claimed to have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into New York's East River. (However, there are doubts about whether the dive...
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Post by LuLu on Jul 23, 2012 23:59:24 GMT -5
Today in History
On July 24, 1862,
Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen, died at age 79 in Kinderhook, N.Y., the town where he was born in 1782.
In 1783,
Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar (see-MOHN' boh-LEE'-vahr) was born in Caracas.
In 1847,
Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
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Post by LuLu on Jul 25, 2012 6:14:34 GMT -5
Today in History
On July 25, 1972
the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction...
In 1866,
Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.
In 1898
the United States invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War.
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Post by LuLu on Jul 26, 2012 14:09:45 GMT -5
Today In History
On July 26, 1952,
Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33. King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
In 1775,
Benjamin Franklin became America's first postmaster general.
In 1788,
New York became the 11th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
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Post by LuLu on Jul 27, 2012 17:23:24 GMT -5
Today In History
On July 27, 1942,
during World War II, the First Battle of El Alamein in Egypt ended in a draw as Allied forces stalled the progress of Axis invaders. (The Allies went on to win a clear victory...
In 1789,
President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State.
In 1861,
Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan took command of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.
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Post by LuLu on Jul 28, 2012 9:52:00 GMT -5
Today In History
Jul 28, 1868
14th Amendment adopted
1776
American Revolution
Sargent and Hutchinson arrive at Horn's Hook, New York
1935
Automotive
Tazio Nuvolari triumphs over Germans at the Nurburgring
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Post by LuLu on Jul 29, 2012 16:47:45 GMT -5
Today in History
On July 29, 1914,
transcontinental telephone service in the U.S. began with the first test phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.
In 1030,
the patron saint of Norway, King Olaf II, was killed in battle.
In 1588,
the English attacked the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines, resulting in an English victory
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Post by LuLu on Jul 30, 2012 13:20:51 GMT -5
Today in History
On July 30, 1942,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" — WAVES for short.
In 1619,
the first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.
In 1729,
Baltimore, Md. was founded.
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Post by LuLu on Jul 31, 2012 13:50:44 GMT -5
Today In History
On July 31, 1942,
Oxfam International had its beginnings as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief was founded in England.
In 1777,
the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army.
In 1875,
the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson, died in Carter County, Tenn., at age 66
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Post by LuLu on Aug 1, 2012 20:14:46 GMT -5
Today In History
On Aug. 1, 1912,
the U.S. Marine Corps' first pilot, 1st Lt. Alfred A. Cunningham, went on his first solo flight as he took off in a Burgess/Curtis Hydroplane from Marblehead Harbor in...
In 1714,
Britain's Queen Anne died at age 49; she was succeeded by George I.
In 1876,
Colorado was admitted as the 38th state.
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Post by LuLu on Aug 2, 2012 17:40:59 GMT -5
Today In History
On Aug. 2, 1862,
the Ambulance Corps for the Army of the Potomac was created at the order of Maj. Gen. George McClellan during the Civil War.
In 1776,
members of the Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.
In 1876,
frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Jack McCall, who was later hanged.
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Post by LuLu on Aug 3, 2012 10:00:53 GMT -5
Today In History
On Aug. 3, 1492,
Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.
In 1807,
former Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial before a federal court in Richmond, Va., charged with treason. (He was acquitted less than a month later.)
In 1914,
Germany declared war on France at the onset of World War I.
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Post by LuLu on Aug 5, 2012 14:47:35 GMT -5
Today In History
On Aug. 5, 1962,
actress Marilyn Monroe, 36, was found dead in her Los Angeles home; her death was ruled a probable suicide from "acute barbiturate poisoning."
In 1864,
during the Civil War, Union Adm. David G. Farragut led his fleet to victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala.
In 1884,
the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal was laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
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Post by LuLu on Aug 6, 2012 11:37:17 GMT -5
Today In History
On August 6, 1962,
Jamaica, formerly ruled by Britain, became an independent dominion within the Commonwealth of Nations.
In 1825,
Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia.
In 1862,
the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas was scuttled by its crew on the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, La., to prevent capture by the Union.
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