This day in history

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July 24th

1847-
Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the Great Salt Lake.

1862- Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y.

1866- Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.

1937- Charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped.

1974- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor

2002- Nine coal miners were trapped in a mine in Pennsylvania. All were rescued three days later.

2005- Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for a record-breaking seventh time  

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August 2nd

1876

Wild Bill Hickok was murdered in Deadwood, S.D.
1909

The first Lincoln penny was issued.
1923

Warren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States, died in San Francisco.
1943

PT-109, a torpedo boat commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, was sunk off the Solomon Islands by a Japanese destroyer.
1945

The Potsdam Conference, in which Allied leaders planned the postwar governance of Germany, ended.
1990

The Persian Gulf War broke out when Iraq invaded Kuwait.

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August 4th.

1735

Printer John Peter Zenger, defended by Andrew Hamilton, was acquitted of libel in a case that helped foster freedom of the press.
1884

Thomas Stevens became the first person to bicycle across the United States. He later bicycled around the world.
1892

Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were killed with an axe in Fall River, Mass.
1914

Germany invaded Belgium and, in response, Britain declared war on Germany.
1916

Denmark ceded the Danish West Indies, including the Danish Virgin Islands, to the United States for 25 million.
1944

Anne Frank and her family were found hiding in Amsterdam by Nazis.
1964

The bodies of three civil-rights workers were found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson
1977

President Carter signed a congressional act that established the Department of Energy.

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1533
Atahualpa, the last ruler of the Incas, was murdered as Francisco Pizarro completed his conquest of Peru.

1786
Shays's rebellion, an insurrection of Massachusetts farmers against the state government, began.

1842
The Treaty of Nanking was signed, ending the Opium Wars and ceding the island of Hong Kong to Britain.

1877
Brigham Young died in Salt Lake City, Utah.

1949
The U.S.S.R. tested their first atomic bomb.

1957
Strom Thurmond ended the longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history. He spoke for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill; the bill passed.

1966
The Beatles played their last major live concert at Candlestick Park, California.

1991
The Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspended all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the institution.

2005
Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast, destroying beachfront towns in Mississippi and Louisiana, displacing a million people, and killing more than 1,000.
















 

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1887
Thomas Edison received a patent for his "Kinetoscope," and moving pictures were born.

1888
Mary Ann Nicholls, considered to be Jack the Ripper's first victim, was found murdered in London.

1962
Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from Great Britain.

1980
Poland's Solidarity labor movement had its beginnings when an agreement ending a 17-day strike was signed in Gdansk.

1994
Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltic states.

1997
Princess Diana and her companion Dodi al-Fayed were killed in a car accident in Paris.

 

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1807
Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.

1923
A devastating earthquake struck the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama. Nearly 150,000 people were killed and more than two million left homeless.

1939
World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

1969
A coup in Libya toppled the monarchy of King Idris and brought Muammar al-Qaddafi to power.

1983
A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter, killing all 269 people aboard.

1985
A joint U. S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic 560 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.

2004
Chechen terrorists took about 1,200 schoolchildren and others hostage in Beslan, Russia. Commandos stormed the school on Sept. 3.

 

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Sept. 2nd

-1666: The great fire of London broke out, destroying much of the city, including St. Paul's Cathedral.

-1786: The U.S. Treasury Department was established.

-1901: Vice President Theodore Roosevelt gave his "speak softly and carry a big stick" speech, regarding foreign policy, at the Minnesota State Fair.

-1945: Japan's formal surrender in World War II was celebrated as
Victory over Japan (V-J) Day.
-Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic.

-1963: Alabama governor George Wallace prevented the racial integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.

-1969: North Vietnamese president Chi Minh died.  

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september 4th

1781- The city of Los Angeles was Founded by Spanish settlers

1888- George Eastman patented his roll-film camera and registered the Kodak trademark

1951- President Harry S. Truman inaugurated transcontinental television service in the U.S. when AT&T carried his address to the opening session of the Japanese Peace Convention in San Francisco.

1957- Nine black students attempted to enter Little Rock's Central High School but were blocked by the National Guard. Arkansas governor Orval Faubus had summoned the federal troops

1972- U. S. swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seventh gold medal at the Munich Summer Olympics  

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1776 The second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing "United Colonies."
1850 California became the 31st state of the union.
1893 Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House.
1926 The National Broadcasting Co. was created by the Radio Corporation of America.
1943 Allied forces landed at Salerno and Taranto during World War II.
1948 The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
1956 Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
1965 Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
1971 Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
1997 Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
2001 Afghanistan's military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists.
2003 The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
2005 Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.

 

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Sept. 9th

1999- THe Dreamcast is released in the USA

Sept. 10th

1813: Oliver H. Perry sent his famous message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after defeating the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812

1846: Elias Howe of Massachusetts received a patent for his sewing machine

1939: Canada declared war on Germany, entering WWII.

1963: Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama, after President John F. Kennedy sent National Guardsman to end the standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace.

1988: Steffi Graf achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970 by winning the U.S. Open women's final.

2002: Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.  

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Sept. 11th

1998- President Clintons preliminary Rebuttal of accusations made in Starr Report

2001- Groups of terrorists Hijacked airplanes which they crashed in the Pentagon, & The twin Towers.

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The passengers in United 93 successfully stopped their plain from making it to the intended target, the United States Capitol building, the seat of government for the United States Congress.  

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September 17th
Constitution Day

did you know:
Most Americans can name the Three Stooges, but not the three branches of the U.S. Government.
- 2006 Zogby Poll

Most Americans can name more members of Homer Simpson’s cartoon family than can identify the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution.
- 2006 study by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum

More Americans can identify the winner of American Idol than can name the Chief Justice of the United States.
- 2007 Newsweek Poll  

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Sept. 18th

2008- The 8th season of Smallville Appears on The CW, (formally The WB)  

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September 22

1776- Nathan Hale was hanged by the British as a spy during the Revolutionary War.

1789- Congress authorized the office of Postmaster-General.

1792- The French Republic was proclaimed.

1862- President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, proposing to free all slaves of rebel states as of Jan. 1, 1863.

1980- The Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war

1989- Songwriter Irving Berlin died in New York City at age 101.

2008- The 3rd season of Heroes, titled Villains, began on NBC.  

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October 3rd

2002- The Naruto TV show was released in Japan.