1789: In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, Benjamin Franklin writes “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” 1933: First modern sit-down strike by Hormel meat packers in Austin, Minnesota 1956: US Supreme court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional 1980: US spacecraft Voyager 1 sends […]
764: Tibetan troops occupy Chang’an for 15 days, capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty 1880: Best selling American novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ” by soldier Lew Wallace is published 1927: Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power 1942: WWII Naval Battle […]
1620: Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, the 1st framework of government in the territory that is now the USA [N.S. Nov 21] 1675: German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite […]
1619: René Descartes has the dream that inspires his “Meditations on First Philosophy” 1674: Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English 1885: German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world’s first motorcycle 1918: Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, […]
1494: Piero the Unfortunate of the de’ Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses his power and flees the state 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul 1980: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran 1994: Darmstadtium, Chemical element 110, discovered at […]
392: Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion 1519: 1st meeting of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II and Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico 1701: William Penn presents Charter of Privileges, guaranteed religious freedom for the colony in Pennsylvania 1734: Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons […]
1492 Ensisheim Meteorite strikes a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact. 1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later 1917 [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture […]
1813: Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain 1860: Republican Abraham Lincoln of Illinois elected the 16th President of the United States of America 1913: Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners’ march in South Africa 1917: [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October […]
1492: Christopher Columbus learns how to grow and harvest maize (corn) from Cuba’s indigenous population 1556: Second Battle of Panipat: Hindu Emperor of north India Hem Chandra Vikramaditya defeated by forces of Mughal Emperor Akbar, who captures and later beheads Hem Chandra 1605: Gunpowder Plot: Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James […]
1576: Eighty Years’ War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and capture Antwerp 1841: First wagon train arrives in California after a five and a half month and 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada from Missouri 1845: First nationally observed uniform election day in the United States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in […]
