This Week In History

March 31   1889: The Eiffel Tower officially opened. 1903: Richard Pearse allegedly made a powered flight in an early aircraft in New Zealand. 1906:…

March 24   1663: The Province of Carolina was granted by charter to eight British lords as a reward for their help in restoring Charles…

March 17   1845: Rubber bands were patented by Stephen Perry. 1905: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (33rd president, 1933-1945) married Eleanor Roosevelt, his fifth cousin once…

March 10   241 BC First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to…

March 3   1284: The principality of Wales was incorporated with England. 1776: The first amphibious landing of the U.S. Marine Corps began the Battle…

February 24   1582: Pope Gregory XIII unveiled the Gregorian calendar, which eventually replaced the less-than-accurate Julian calendar. 1607: The first work recognized as an…

February 10   1567: The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley, age 21, was found strangled to death in Edinburgh, Scotland, in…

January 3   1496: Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tested a flying machine. 1957: The Hamilton Watch Co. introduced the first electric wristwatch. 1959: Alaska became…

January 26      1500: Vicente Yáñez Pinzón became the first European to set foot on Brazil. 1788: The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip,…