July 31 1715: A fleet of Spanish ships carrying gold, silver and jewelry sank during a hurricane off the east Florida coast. 1777: The 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette received a commission as major general in […]
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. […]
June 12 1942: Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis. 1963: […]
June 51794: Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the United States.1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and […]
May 29 1790: Rhode Island became the 13th and final original colony to ratify the United States Constitution. 1914: The Canadian Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River in eastern […]
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