1883 – First run of the Orient Express. 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. 1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes...
Don’t miss anything from the holiday weekend! December 31 1600 – Queen Elizabeth I grants charter to the East India...
1793 – Noah Webster establishes New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva. 1872 – P.B.S. Pinchback became the first African American...
1901 – President William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6. He is succeeded by Vice President Theodore...
1859 – Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, publishes his groundbreaking scientific work “Origin of the Species,” which argued that organisms...
1787 – Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the Constitution. 1870 – Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes...
1858 – First telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean is completed, led by U.S. businessman Cyrus West Field. 1914 – German assault...
1864 – During the Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta. 1888...
1811 – Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” is published anonymously. Austen began writing stories at age 12, and published several...
1950 – Several feet of snow fall on a single day in the northeast and, combined with hurricane force winds,...