This Week In History

April 11   1876: The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City 1961: The trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf…

April 4 1147: First historical record of Moscow, Russia. 1818: Congress adopted the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and…

March 28 1802: German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (1758-1840) of Bremen discovered the second asteroid known to man, dubbed 2 Pallas. 1814: The Royal…

March 21 1913: Over 360 people were killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio. 1925: The Butler Act was…

March 14         1794: Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin.          1903: The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States…

March 7 1774 – The British closed the port of Boston to all commerce. 1799 – In Palestine, Napoleon captured Jaffa and his men massacred…

February 28         1784: John Wesley chartered the Methodist Church.       1827: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was incorporated. 1844: A gun aboard USS…

February 14         1349: In Strasbourg, France, several hundred Jews were burned to death by mobs that blamed them for the Black Death sweeping…

February 21 1673: French playwright and actor Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), collapsed during a performance of his new play, Le Malade Imagi-naire (The Hypochondriac) and died…