1784 - Virginia relinquishes its claim to Illinois.1787 - Northwest Ordinance places Illinois in the Northwest Territory.1788 - Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818) becomes the first governor of the Northwest Territory.
years, the Illinois River has been deepened, dammed, contained by levees, polluted, silted-in, dredged-out, and turned into one of the country's busiest shipping lanes. Scientists recognized that abuse of the river could destroy its ability to function as a ...
March 3, 1891 - The 51st Congress of the United States passes the International Copyright Act of 1891. More April 1, 1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois, originally selling soap, baking powder, and the next year, chewing gum. More May 5, 1891 - Carnegie ...
Chalmers, David Mark. "Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan." 3rd ed. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1987. Lay, Shawn, ed. "The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s." Urbana: University of Illinois Press,...
Explore our history1819 A LIFETIME OF INNOVATION IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE BEGINS Edward Robinson Squibb was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 4, 1819. Early in his life, Edward dreamed of becoming a physician. To make this possible, he served five years as an apothecary’s apprentice ...
Jozef B. Cohen, Visual Color and Color Mixture: The Fundamental Color Space, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, Illinois, 2001, 248 pp.William A. Thornton 1923-2006 William A. Thornton, “Luminosity and color-rendering capability of white light,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. 61(9):1155-1163...
African American history began with slavery, as white European settlers first brought Africans to the continent to serve as enslaved workers. After the Civil War, the racist legacy of slavery persisted, spurring movements of resistance. Learn important d
“Gentleman’s Agreement” from History.com “Angel Island: Guardian of the Western Gate” from University of Illinois “World War I” from U.S. Army Asian Pacific Americans in the United States Army “The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act)” from U.S. Department of State ...
In 1992, a group of students and researchers at the University of Illinois developed a sophisticated browser that they called Mosaic. (It later became Netscape.) Mosaic offered a user-friendly way to search the Web: It allowed users to see words and pictures on the same page for the first...
National Association of Office Appliance Manufacturers founded in Chicago, Illinois 1917 NovTadao Kashio born, Nangoku City, Japan, future co-founder of Casio [26-Nov] 1918 AB Addo founded in Malmo, Sweden by Hugo Agrell 1919 1920 FebAn Wang born in Shanghai, China, future founder of Wang ...