this day in history

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (More info) 1943 – The Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt (More inf

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times (More info) 1926 – George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form coul

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1869 – The Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, opens in Egypt (More info) 1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts the movie ‘Heidi’ instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the US (More info) Read

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory collectively enter the United States as Oklahoma, the 46th state (More info) 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1777 – After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation (More info) 1867 – The first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1882 – Billy the Kid is killed in a shootout in Tombstone, Arizona (More info) 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly — aka Elizabeth Cochrane — begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days, completing the trip in 72 day (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism (More info) 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River car tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union (More info) 1954 – Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892 (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod (More info) 1831 – Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded (More info) 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts (More info) 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first sitting US President to make an official trip outside the country, traveling to inspect progress on the Panama Canal (More info) 1965 – A switch at a station near Niagara Falls fails, plun

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1793 – After more than two centuries as a royal palace, the Louvre is opened as a public museum in Paris by the French revolutionary government (More info) 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, German scientist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray (More info)