Oct. 23 1915: An estimated 25,000 women marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City in support of women’s suffrage. 1944: The Battle of Leyte (LAY’-tee) Gulf began; the largest naval battle of World War […]
Oct. 9 1910: A coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado killed 56 miners. 1962: Uganda won independence from British rule. 1967: Marxist guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was executed by the Bolivian […]
Sept. 25 1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and became the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean from the New World. 1789: The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 […]
Sept. 4 1781: Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers under the leadership of Governor Felipe de Neve. 1957: Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus ordered Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine Black students from entering all-white […]
July 24 1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate her throne to her 1-year-old son James. 1847: Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah. […]
July 17 1902: Willis Carrier produced a set of designs for what would become the world’s first modern air-conditioning system. 1918: Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks. 1936: The […]
July 10 1925: Jury selection began in Dayton, Tennessee, in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. 1940: The Battle of Britain began as the German Luftwaffe launched attacks […]
July 3 1863: The pivotal three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops failed to breach Union positions during an assault known as Pickett’s […]
June 26 1917: U.S. troops entered World War I as the first troops of the American Expeditionary Force landed in Saint-Nazaire, France. 1945: The charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in […]
June 19 1865: Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over and that all remaining enslaved people in Texas were free — an event now celebrated nationwide as Juneteenth. […]
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