1917 – Jeannette Pickering Rankin, the first woman ever elected to Congress, takes her seat in the U.S. Capitol as...
1776 – A public notice appears in local papers recognizing the sacrifice of women to the cause of the revolution....
1455 – Johannes Gutenberg prints his first Bible. 1836 – The siege on the Alamo begins. 1850 – Cesar Ritz...
1830 – Joseph Smith and five others officially start The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fayette, NY....
597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king. 1751 – James Madison is born. 1802 –...
1732 – George Washington is born in Virginia. 1819 – The U.S. acquires Spanish Florida. 1876 – Zitkála-Šá is born. Granddaughter...
1588 – Thomas Hobbes is born. He was an English philosopher known for his work “Leviathan.” 1614 – American Indian...
44 BC – Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by 60 conspirators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus. 1767 – Andrew...
1803 – Marbury v. Madison confirms the legal principle of judicial review. 1864 – Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first...
1805 – Lewis and Clark begin their journey to the Pacific Ocean, accompanied by Sacagawea and her two-month old baby,...
