THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
January 21 1525: The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was founded, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. (Amish, Mennonites and Hutterites are direct descendents of…
This Week In History
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
January 6 1919: Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. president, 1901-1909) died at Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60. 1969: Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter (later president,…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
December 30 1066: A Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, Spain, crucified Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela, and massacred most of the…
LOCAL NEWS & THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Fran & Katie’s Giving Tree continues to expand outreach in Troy By Stacy Bender Santa and Mrs. Claus were joined by several members of the…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
December 16 1707: The last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan occurred. 1773: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians…
This Week in History
December 10 1799: France adopted the meter as its official unit of length. 1817: Mississippi became the 20th U.S. state. 1868: The first traffic…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY & PUZZLES
November 26 1842: The University of Notre Dame was founded near South Bend, Indiana. 1863: President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed November 26 as a national…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
November 18 1307: William Tell (circa 1280-1354) shot an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow and bolt in Altdorf, Austria. 1493: Christopher…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
November 5 1499: The first French dictionary and the first Breton dictionary, the Catholicon, was published in Tréguier, Brittany, France. This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
October 29 1675: German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) made the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the…