Also on This Day in History May | 15 Discover what happened on May 15 with HISTORY's summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths. This Day in History: 05/15/1937 - Madeleine Albright is Born 2009 GE finally initiates cleanup of polluted Hudson River21st Century...
1/Jan/1881 Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes 2/Jan/1947 Lord Bevin commented that with half of the population of beggars and thieves, India is ungovernable Nation 3/Jan/1925 Benito Mussolini announces he will become dictator of Italy 4/Ja
Day of Pesach observed on the same day that Abigail Smith, the future wife of founding father John Adams, wrote to him during their courtship. 1767(21stof Nisan, 5527): Seventh Day of Pesach observed as the UK prepares to enact the Townsend Acts, measures which will inflame relations with ...
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Across America, many people wake up this morning thinking it will be a normal day. But in the next 24 hours, almost 150 tornadoes will hit the United States. It will be the largest tornado outbreak in the nation's history. Why did so many deadly tornadoes hit on this one day? And ...
Walker, dies on this day at her estate on Irvington-on-the-Hudson in New York. Walker is generally believed to have been the first Black millionaire in American history. 1926—Famed Jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis was born on this day in 1926. 1943—One of the largest White...
April 2, 1513 - Spanish explorer Ponce De Leon sighted Florida and claimed it for the Spanish Crown after landing at the site of present day St. Augustine, now the oldest city in the continental U.S.April 2, 1792 - Congress established the first U.S. Mint at Philadelphia....
1753—This is believed to be the day Lemuel Haynes escaped from slavery in Massachusetts. The product of a Black father and a mother who was normally described in history texts as “a White woman of respectable ancestry,” Haynes would become a renowned figure in early American...
John's Day (October 23rd) and return the following year near St. Joseph's Day (March 19th).November 1, 1848 - The first medical school for women opened in Boston. The Boston Female Medical School was founded by Samuel Gregory with just twelve students. In 1874, the school merged with ...