Tag: history
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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 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 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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April 14, 2009 02:19 PM EDT --
In 1828, Noah Webster published his "American Dictionary of the English Language." It was the first dictionary of American English to be published.
In 1861, the flag of the Confederacy was . . .
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April 15, 2009 11:28 PM EDT --
In 1817, the first U.S. public school for the deaf, Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (now the American School for the Deaf), was founded at Hartford, Conn. . . .
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April 16, 2009 08:54 AM EDT --
In 1862, the U.S. Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia
In 1912, Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel .
In 1947, in Texas City's . . .
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April 19, 2009 11:03 AM EDT --
In 1775, the American Revolutionary War began at the Battle of Lexington, Mass. Eight Minutemen were killed and 10 wounded in an exchange of musket fire with British Redcoats.
In 1861, one week after . . .
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April 23, 2009 10:23 AM EDT --
April 23rd, 1616 marks the death of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes.
In 1635, the first public school in America, the Boston Latin School, opened.
In 1898, the first movie . . .
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May 03, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
In 1919, U.S. airplane passenger service began when pilot Robert Hewitt flew two women from New York to Atlantic City, N.J.
In 1946, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East began hearing . . .
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May 06, 2009 10:24 AM EDT --
In 1527, German troops sacked Rome, killing 4,000 people and looting works of art and literature as part of a series of wars between the Hapsburg Empire and the French monarchy.
In 1863, Confederate . . .
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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 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 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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