April 24 1916: Irish republicans launched the Easter Rising, a rebellion against British rule in Ireland. 1915: The Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople, marking the start of the […]
April 17 1961: Some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion within three days. 1970: Apollo 13 astronauts […]
April 10 1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in New York by Henry Bergh. 1919: Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was assassinated by forces loyal to President Venustiano Carranza. […]
April 3 1860: The first Pony Express mail delivery rides began; one heading west from St. Joseph, Missouri, and one heading east from Sacramento, California. 1882: Outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert […]
March 27 1939: The first NCAA men’s Division I basketball championship game was held, with the University of Oregon defeating Ohio State, 46-33. 1973: Marlon Brando refused to accept his Oscar for best actor in […]
March 20 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule. 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was first published in book […]
March 13 1781: The seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by astronomer William Herschel. 1925: The Tennessee General Assembly approved the Butler Act, which prohibited public schools from teaching of the theory […]
March 6 1820: President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine to join as a free state. 1836: The Alamo in San Antonio, […]
Feb. 27 1933: Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire; Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming communists, used the fire to justify suspending civil liberties. 1942: The Battle of the Java Sea began during World […]
Feb. 20 1792: President George Washington signed an act creating the United States Post Office Department, the predecessor of the U.S. Postal Service. 1907: President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded “idiots, imbeciles, […]
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