LET THEM REST IN PEACE; on This Day in 1916, the Last Execution of the Rising Leaders Took Place in the Bleak Stonebreakers' Yard of Kilmainham. but Few Know That Their Bodies Were Flung into a Pit, without Respect or Honour. It Is Time, Says Our Columnist, to Give Them, at Long...
On February 21, 1916, one of the longest battles on the Western Front began at Verdun. The nearly 10-month battle ended in a French victory, but at a high cost of lives on both sides. Read Article Love history? Discover events in American history – plus the stamps that make them co...
This Day in Track & Field, February 8, Howard Drew (USC) sets WR at 100 yards in 10 flat (1916), Joie Ray wins Wanamaker 1 1/2 mile for 4th time (1921), Sergey Bubka sets WR (5.92m), This Day in Track & Field, February 5, Glenn Cunninghamd wins his 5th Wanamaker Mile (1938...
THIS DAY IN MU FOOTBALL HISTORY: Nov. 4, 1916 ; Missouri Upended Texas 3-0 in Homecoming VictoryControversy over the Texas Longhorns' roster clouded the week before the game in Columbia.Nestor, Matt
On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men are working in one of the huge pressurised tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny hole appears in the roof of the tunnel and air rushes in, sucking the men up through the...
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was born at Marshalltown, Iowa, 28 March 1897. He was the son of Charles Monroe Hawks, a barber, and Ida Mae Woodruff Hawks. He attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School, Long Beach, California, graduating in 1916. He then studied at the University of Southern California, in Los ...
flight and became the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean, aboard Donald Woodward’s Fokker F.VIIb/3m,Friendship, which was flown by Wilmer Stutz and Louis Gordon. (See This Day in Aviation, 17–18 June 1928) They were married 7 February 1931 at his parents’ home in Noank, ...
Alberto Sordi,remembered by lovers of Italian cinema as one of its most outstanding comedy actors, died on this day in 2003 in Rome, the city of his birth. He was 82 and had suffered a heart attack. Italy reacted with an outpouring of grief and the decision was taken for his body to...
21 February, 1916 — German and French armies go head to head, starting in the early morning. Lead erupted from the barrel of a Langer Max siege and coastal-defense weapon, firing 15 inch (38 cm) rounds into French positions. The first building to take a hit would be a French cathedral...