Nov. 13 1775: During the Revolutionary War, American forces under Continental Army Gen. Richard Montgomery captured Montreal. 1956: The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling that struck down Alabama’s bus segregation laws as […]
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. 16 1793: Marie Antoinette, queen of France, was beheaded during the French Revolution. 1859: Abolitionist John Brown led a failed raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. 1934: Chinese Communists, under siege […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
These transformational events in history happened this week. Dec. 12 1870: Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the first black lawmaker sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives. 2000: George W. Bush became president-elect […]
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