A bit of April 24th history…

1184bc - Greeks enter Troy using Trojan Horse 

1800 - US Library of Congress established

1888 - Eastman Kodak founded

1898 - Spanish-American War : Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba

1916 - Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin (pictured)

2018 -Streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of cds and vinyl for 1st time 

A bit of March 5th history…

1558 - Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by the Spanish (pictured)

1616 - Astronomical work ‘de Revolutionibus’ by Copernicus placed on the Catholic Forbidden index

1770 - Boston Massacre: British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them; African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die, later held up as early martyr, massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings

1836 - Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34 caliber “Texas” model

1946 - Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in Missouri popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe

1995 - Graves of Tsar Nicholas ii and family found in St Petersburg

2019 - Kylie Jenner is world’s youngest ever billionaire at 21 years old 

On April 24, 2025 at 01:02AM, some big things happened. Click the date to read more.

Today In History: July 06A bit of July 6th history… 1348 - Papal...

Today In History: July 06

A bit of July 6th history…

1348 - Papal Bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating that Jews were not to blame and urging their protection

1699 - Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston

1785 - US Congress unanimously decides the name of US currency is “dollar” and adopts decimal coinage

1923 - The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in Dec 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)

1928 - The 1st all talking motion picture is shown in NY (pictured)

2016 - Pokemon Go, the real world mobile game, is 1st released  

A bit of March 17th history…

432 - Saint Patrick, aged about 16, is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)

1762 - 1st St Patrick’s Day in NYC

1829 - Final performance by famous clown Joseph Grimaldi at benefit performance in London (pictured)

1845 - Rubber band patented

1905 - Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of light, one of the foundations of modern physics 

On April 7, 2025 at 01:01AM, some big things happened. Click the date to read more.

A bit of March 15th history…

44 BC - Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome (pictured)

1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become 1st professional baseball team

1913 - 1st US presidential press conference

1939 - Reneging on his pledge in the Munich Agreement, Adolf Hitler and Germany occupy and annex Czechoslovakia

1962 - 5 research groups announce the discovery of anti-matter

1972 - “The Godfather” premiers

2018 - Toys R Us announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy 

On April 6, 2025 at 01:01AM, some big things happened. Click the date to read more.

A bit of March 18th…

37 - Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula) emperor

1870 - 1st US National Wildlife Preserve - Lake Meritt in California

1881 - Barnum and Bailey Circus, travelling as “The Greatest Show on Earth” debuts in NYC, would las 146 years before closing in 2017

1942 - US President FDR signs executive order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority, which was charged with overseeing the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII (pictured)

1965 - Poppin Fresh Pillsbury Doughboy introduced

1990 - Largest art robbery in US history: 13 works worth over $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

2014 - Russia formally Annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine, by signing Treaty of Accession 

On April 5, 2025 at 01:01AM, some big things happened. Click the date to read more.

A bit of March14th history…

1592 - “Ultimate Pi Day”: on this day at 6:53 am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358)

1794 - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US (pictured)

1899 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a “Navigable Balloon”

1904 - In landmark case, Northern Securities Company vs US, the US Supreme Court finds the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; 1st case in Roosevelt’s ‘trust-busting’ campaign

1950 - FBI’s “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” program begins

2018 - NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after 1 year in space, 7% of his genes are altered 

On April 4, 2025 at 01:01AM, some big things happened. Click the date to read more.