1789 – Founding Father Ethan Allen dies of a stroke at age 52. 1793 – First Fugitive Slave law passed...
1806 – Construction is authorized for the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, which became the first...
1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is born. He served on the US Supreme Court justice from 1902-1932. 1884 –...
624 – Wu Zetian, the only female Chinese emperor in history, is born. 1621 – Myles Standish is elected as...
1776 – Abigail Adams writes to her husband John who is helping to frame the Declaration of Independence and cautions,...
1616 – The astronomical work ‘de Revolutionibus’ by Nicolaus Copernicus is placed on Catholic Forbidden index. 1770 – The Boston...
600 – Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying “God bless You” is the correct response to a sneeze. 1838 –...
1839 – Mary Elizabth Bowser is born. A former slave, Bowser served as an undercover agent for Ulysses S. Grant...
1454 – Amerigo Vespucci is born in Florence. 1497 – Nicolaus Copernicus makes his 1st recorded astronomical observation 1522 – ...
1879 РSculptor Fr̩d̩ric-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty. 1885 РMark...
