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 […]
May 22 1939: The foreign ministers of Germany and Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano, signed a “Pact of Steel” committing their two countries to a military and political alliance. 1964: President Lyndon B. […]
May 15 1800: President John Adams ordered government offices to relocate from Philadelphia to the newly constructed city of Washington, in the federal District of Columbia. 1862: President Abraham Lincoln signed an act establishing the […]
May 8 1541: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River, the first recorded European to do so. 1846: U.S. forces led by Gen. Zachary Taylor defeated Mexican forces near modern-day Brownsville, Texas, in […]
May 1 1931: The Empire State Building was dedicated in New York City; it would be the world’s tallest building for four decades. 1960: The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over […]
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 […]
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