1859 – Militant abolitionist John Brown is hanged after being charged with treason, murder and insurrection for attacking Harper’s Ferry...
1874 – Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, who guided Great Britain and the Allies though the crisis of World War II,...
1859 – Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, publishes his groundbreaking scientific work “Origin of the Species,” which argued that organisms...
1820 – The American whaler Essex, while hunting sperm whales off the South American coast, is rammed twice by an...
1883 – American and Canadian railroads create and begin to use four continental time zones to end the confusion of...
1824 – The presidential election goes to the House of Representatives as no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes....
1950 – Several feet of snow fall on a single day in the northeast and, combined with hurricane force winds,...
1859 – The famous western outlaw “Billy the Kid” is born, most likely in a poor Irish neighborhood on News...
1863 – At the dedication of a military cemetery, four months after the single bloodiest battle of the Civil War, Pres....
1558 – 25-year-old Elizabeth ascends to England’s throne after her half-sister, Mary I, dies. Elizabeth faces danger and opposition, but...
