Tag: history
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April 02, 2009 11:50 AM EDT --
In 1513, Ponce De Leon of Spain landed at what is now St. Augustine, Fla., to search for the Fountain of Youth.
In 1792, the U.S. Congress passed legislation authorizing the U.S. Mint to coin money, . . .
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April 03, 2009 09:34 AM EDT --
In 1860, the Pony Express postal service began with riders leaving St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento at the same time.
In 1865, as the Civil War drew to a close, Richmond, Va., and nearby Petersburg . . .
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April 04, 2009 10:03 AM EDT --
On April 4th, 1581, Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the world and was knighted by Elizabeth I.
In 1818, the U.S. Congress approved the first flag of the United States. . . .
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April 08, 2009 04:02 PM EDT --
On this day, Buddhists celebrate the commemoration of the birth of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, thought to have lived in India from 563 B.C. to 483 B.C.
On April 8th, 1742, Handel's . . .
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April 01, 2009 11:33 AM EDT --
On April 1st, 1826, Samuel Morey patented the internal combustion engine.
In 1918, toward the end of World War I, the Royal Air Force was founded. Two months later, Britain began bombing industrial . . .
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April 05, 2009 04:01 PM EDT --
In 1614, Pocahontas, daughter of a chief, married English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Va., a marriage that ensured peace between the settlers and the Powhatan Indians for several . . .
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April 06, 2009 09:52 AM EDT --
On April 6th, 648 BC, the ancient Greeks made the first documentation of a solar eclipse.
In 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints was founded in a log cabin in Fayette, . . .
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April 09, 2009 10:50 AM EDT --
In 1816, the first all-black U.S. religious denomination, the AME church, was organized in Philadelphia.
In 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox . . .
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April 10, 2009 10:46 AM EDT --
In 1790, merchant Robert Gray docked at Boston Harbor, becoming the first American to circumnavigate the globe. He sailed from Boston in September 1787.
In 1849, William Hunt of New York patented the . . .
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May 21, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
In 1832, the first Democratic Party national convention met in Baltimore.
In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed the "Spirit of St. Louis" in Paris, . . .
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May 22, 2009 11:55 AM EDT --
In 334 B.C., Alexander the Great defeated Persian King Darius III at Granicus, Turkey.
In 1868, seven members of the Reno gang stole $98,000 from a railway car at Marshfield, Ind. It was the original . . .
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May 23, 2009 08:22 AM EDT --
On May 23rd, 1618, the Second Defenestration of Prague helped to instiage the Thirty Years' War.
In 1701, Capt. William Kidd was hanged in London for piracy and murder.
In 1900, U.S. Army Sgt. . . .
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May 31, 2009 10:50 AM EDT --
On May 31st, 1678, the Godiva procession through Coventry began.
In 1790, U.S. President George Washington signed into law the first U.S. copyright law.
In 1889, a flood in Johnstown, Pa., left . . .
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June 01, 2009 09:03 AM EDT --
In 1812, U.S. President James Madison warned Congress that war with Britain was imminent. The War of 1812 started 17 days later.
In 1880, the first public pay telephone began operation in New Haven, . . .
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June 02, 2009 04:15 PM EDT --
On June 2nd, 1835, P.T. Barnum and his circus began their first tour of the United States.
In 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate armies of eastern Virginia and North Carolina . . .
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June 03, 2009 04:04 PM EDT --
In 1888, the famous comic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was published in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Examiner.
In1889, the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed.
In 1937, the Duke . . .
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June 04, 2009 11:14 AM EDT --
In 1784, France's Marie Thible of Lyons became the first woman to fly in a hot-air balloon.
In 1896, Henry Ford wheeled his first car from a brick shed in Detroit and drove it around darkened streets . . .
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June 05, 2009 09:41 AM EDT --
1865 - "Onward Christian Soldiers" was presented for the first time.
1941 - Gene Krupa and his band recorded "After You've Gone" with Roy Eldridge on trumpet.
1942 - Sammy Kaye and his orchestra recorded . . .
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May 31, 2009 11:21 AM EDT --
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Men relate to him, women's hearts skip a beat. He's the strong, silent type. He's Clint Eastwood (Jr.), born, probably complete with leathered face, . . .
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June 03, 2009 04:13 PM EDT --
There was no joy in Mudville this day in 1888 , as Casey at the Bat was first published in The San Francisco Examiner . The author was not given a byline in the paper, but he . . .
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