THIS WEEKS IN HISTORY
August 15 1965: The Beatles played to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York, New York, an event later regarded as the…
This Week In History
THIS WEEKS IN HISTORY
August 1 1498: Christopher Columbus became the first European to visit what is now Venezuela. 1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen gas, corroborating…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY AND LEGALS
July 18 1925: Adolf Hitler published his personal manifesto, Mein Kampf. 1968: The Intel Corporation was founded in Santa Clara, Calif. 1976: Nadia Comăneci…
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June 6 1799: Patrick Henry (“Give me liberty or give me death”) died in Virginia at age 63. 1816: The first of several summer snowstorms…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
May 31 1790: The United States enacted its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790. 1927: The last Ford Model T rolled off the…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
May 24 1784: The U.S. Treasury Board was established with $21,000. 1830: Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale was published in Boston….
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
May 9 1960: The Food and Drug Administration approved Searle’s Enovid, making it the world’s first approved oral contraceptive pill. 1961: Jim Gentile of the…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
May 2 1611: The King James Bible was published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. 2000: President Bill Clinton announced…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
April 25 1953: Francis Crick and James D. Watson published “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” describing the double helix…
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
April 18 1506: The cornerstone for St. Peter’s Basilica is laid at the Vatican. 1775: Paul Revere and others warn countryman of the British advancement…