FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS George Lee “Sparky” Anderson (February 22, 1934 – November 4, 2010) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach, and manager. He managed the National League‘s Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 and 1976 championships, then added a third title in 1984 with the Detroit Tigers of the American League. Anderson was the first manager to win the World Series in […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster of the Great Depression. He led a group known as the “Dillinger Gang“, which was accused of robbing 24 banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times but escaped […]

1290s 1298: BATTLE OF FALKIRK: ENGLAND’S EDWARD LONGSHANK DEFEATED WILLIAM WALLACE’S SCOTTISH REBELS 1790s DIED 1796: ROBERT BURNS (POET) 1830s 1836: CANADA’S FIRST PUBLIC RAILWAY (CHAMPLAIN AND ST. LAWRENCE) OPENED 1860s 1861: THE FIRST MAJOR MILITARY ENGAGEMENT IN THE CIVIL WAR TOOK PLACE AT BULL […]

1300s BORN 1304: PETRARCH (POET) 1304: EDWARD I OF ENGLAND TOOK THE LAST REBEL STRONGHOLD IN THE WARS OF SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE 1590s 1591: RELIGIOUS LEADER ANNE HUTCHINSON WAS BAPTIZED 1810s 1810: COLOMBIA DECLARED INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN 1870s 1871: BRITISH COLUMBIA JOINED THE CANADIAN CONFEDERATION150 Years […]

60s 64: FIRE BEGAN NEAR CIRCUS MAXIMUS THAT DESTROYED 2/3 OF ROME, ITALY 1550s 1553: LADY JANE GREY WAS REPLACED BY MARY I OF ENGLAND AS QUEEN OF ENGLAND AFTER HAVING THE TITLE FOR ONLY NINE DAYS 1810s BORN 1814: SAMUEL COLT (INVENTOR) 1830s BORN […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Gerry Thomas (February 17, 1922 – July 18, 2005) was a Canadian who moved to the US to become a salesman. He is sometimes credited with inventing the TV Dinner in 1952. Thomas, who worked for the Swanson food company in America in the 1950s and went […]

1760s BORN 1763: JOHN JACOB ASTOR (BUSINESSMAN) 1820s 1821: FLORIDA FORMALLY CEDED BY SPAIN TO THE U.S.200 Years Ago 1850s 1850: FIRST PHOTO TAKEN OF STAR OTHER THAN SUN (VEGA), HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY 1860s 1862: U.S. NATIONAL CEMETERY ACT PASSED 1867: IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, THE […]

1480s BORN 1486: ANDREA DEL SARTO (PAINTER) 1550s DIED 1557: ANNE OF CLEVES (FOURTH WIFE OF KING HENRY VIII) 1660s BORN 1661: PIERRE LE MOYNE (FRENCH-CANADIAN EXPLORER) 1740s BORN 1746: GIUSEPPE PIAZZI (ITALIAN ASTRONOMER) 1790s 1790: CONGRESS ESTABLISHED THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ON THE POTOMAC […]

Every Year ST. SWITHIN’S DAY 1600s BORN 1606: REMBRANDT (ARTIST) 1770s BORN 1779: CLEMENT MOORE (WRITER) 1790s 1799: IN THE EGYPTIAN VILLAGE OF RASHID, FRENCH CAPTAIN PIERRE BOUCHARD FOUND THE ROSETTA STONE 1850s BORN 1850: SAINT FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI (MISSIONARY) 1870s 1870: GEORGIA BECAME THE […]

Every Year BASTILLE DAY 1220s 1223: LOUIS VIII BECAME KING OF FRANCE UPON THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER 1790s 1791: THE PRIESTLEY RIOTS TOOK PLACE IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND 1850s 1853: THE FIRST WORLD’S FAIR TO BE HELD IN THE UNITED STATES OPENED IN NEW YORK […]