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, […]
Feb. 13 1945: Allied forces in World War II began a three-day bombing raid on Dresden, Germany, killing as many as 25,000 people and triggering a firestorm that swept through the city center. 1935: A […]
Feb. 6 1778: During the American Revolutionary War, the United States won official recognition and military support from France with the signing of a Treaty of Alliance in Paris. 1862: During the Civil War, Fort […]
Jan. 30 1649: England’s King Charles I was executed for high treason. 1933: Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany. 1948: Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in […]
Jan. 23 1368: China’s Ming dynasty, which lasted nearly three centuries, began. 1789: Georgetown University was established in present-day Washington, D.C. 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the […]
Jan. 16 1865: Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves. (The order inspired the expression, “40 […]
Jan. 9 1861: Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union. 1916: The World War I Battle of Gallipoli ended with an Ottoman Empire victory as Allied forces withdrew. 1945: During World War […]
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