Every Year INTERNATIONAL (WORKING) WOMEN’S DAY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 1700s DIED 1702: KING WILLIAM III 1790s BORN 1799: SIMON CAMERON (PENNSYLVANIA POLITICAL BOSS, U.S. SENATOR, SECRETARY OF WAR) 1840s BORN 1841: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (SUPREME COURT JUSTICE) 1850s 1855: FIRST TRAIN CROSSED NIAGARA RAILWAY SUSPENSION […]

1830s BORN 1837: HENRY DRAPER (ASTRONOMER) 1840s 1842: QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY HELD ITS FIRST CLASSES, KINGSTON, ONTARIO BORN 1849: LUTHER BURBANK (HORTICULTURIST) 1870s BORN 1875: JOSEPH MAURICE RAVEL (COMPOSER) 1876: ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL RECEIVED A PATENT FOR HIS TELEPHONE 1878: TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE INCORPORATED 1890s 1897: […]

1470s BORN 1475: MICHELANGELO DI LODOVICO BUONARROTI SIMONI (PAINTER & SCULPTOR) 1520s 1521: GUAM DISCOVERED BY FERDINAND MAGELLAN 1640s 1646: FIRST MACHINE PATENT ISSUED IN NORTH AMERICA WAS GRANTED TO JOSEPH JENCKES OF MASSACHUSETTS 1800s BORN 1806: ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (POET) 1810s 1819: U.S. SUPREME […]

1770s 1770: BOSTON MASSACRE. FIVE AMERICAN RIOTERS KILLED IN SKIRMISH WITH BRITISH TROOPS DIED 1770: CRISPUS ATTUCKS (FIRST CASUALTY OF BOSTON MASSACRE) 1830s BORN 1835: WILLIAM STEINWAY (PIANO MANUFACTURER) 1840s 1849: ZACHARY TAYLOR WAS INAUGURATED AS THE 12TH U.S. PRESIDENT; MILLARD FILLMORE BECAME VICE PRESIDENT […]

Every Year VERMONT ADMISSION DAY 1670s BORN 1678: ANTONIO VIVALDI (COMPOSER) 1680s 1681: WILLIAM PENN WAS GIVEN A CHARTER FOR LANDS IN THE NEW WORLD BY KING CHARLES II 1750s BORN 1754: BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE (PHYSICIAN) 1780s 1789: THE FIRST CONGRESS MET IN NY 1790s 1791: […]

1810s 1812: FIRST U.S. FOREIGN AID BILL AUTHORIZED $50,000 FOR RELIEF OF VICTIMS OF AN EARTHQUAKE IN VENEZUELA 1820s 1820: MISSOURI COMPROMISE WAS PASSED BY U.S. CONGRESS, ADMITTING MAINE AS A FREE STATE AND MISSOURI AS A SLAVE STATE 1830s BORN 1831: GEORGE MORTIMER PULLMAN […]

TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY Texas Independence Day celebrates the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836, in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas. The document listed grievances against the Mexican government by the citizens of this Mexican territory, and then declared Texas a “free, sovereign, and […]

ST. DAVID’S DAY This day commemorates the patron saint of Wales, St. David, who was born in the sixth century at Henfynw, Cardigan. St. David’s Day also celebrates the Welsh victory over the Saxons in 640. Legend has it that the clever Welsh farmers pinned […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”. […]

FULL SNOW MOON Usually the heaviest snows fall in February. Hunting becomes very difficult, and hence to some Native American tribes this was the Hunger Moon. 1770s 1776: DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, LOYALISTS WERE DEFEATED IN THE BATTLE OF MOORES CREEK BRIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. He became known for assisting Major […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Muhammad Ali (/ɑːˈliː/; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, entertainer and philanthropist. Nicknamed The Greatest, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated figures of the 20th century and as one of […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from […]

 FEBRUARY 22, 2021 Series of Season Ticket Holder presales begin Tuesday; Remaining tickets to go on sale to the public Friday COLUMBUS, OHIO – Following the announcement that the State of Ohio approved a request of variance to allow 1,953 fans, or 10 percent of Nationwide […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Crispus Attucks (c.1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American stevedore of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution. Historians disagree on whether he was a free man or an […]

Every Year INDEPENDENCE DAY (SAINT LUCIA) 1510s DIED 1512: AMERIGO VESPUCCI (EXPLORER) 1630s 1630: POPCORN WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO ENGLISH COLONISTS BY NATIVE AMERICANS 1730s BORN 1732: GEORGE WASHINGTON (1ST U.S. PRESIDENT) 1770s BORN 1778: REMBRANDT PEALE (ARTIST) 1810s 1819: “FLORIDA PURCHASE” TREATY SIGNED 1870s […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time […]

1790s 1792: GEORGE WASHINGTON SIGNED THE POSTAL ACT, CREATING THE FEDERAL POSTAL SYSTEM WITH A PER-MILE RATE STRUCTURE 1870s 1872: THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART OPENED IN NYC 1877: TCHAIKOVSKY’S BALLET SWAN LAKE PREMIERED 1890s DIED 1895: FREDERICK DOUGLASS (ABOLITIONIST) 1900s BORN 1902: ANSEL ADAMS […]

1470s BORN 1473: NICOLAUS COPERNICUS (ASTRONOMER) 1740s BORN 1743: LUIGI BOCCHERINI (COMPOSER) 1810s 1814: USS CONSTITUTION CAPTURED BRITISH BRIG HMS CATHERINE 1830s 1831: FIRST PRACTICAL U.S. COAL-BURNING LOCOMOTIVE (YORK) TESTED, YORK, PENNSYLVANIA 1840s BORN 1843: ADELINA PATTI (OPERA SINGER; NAMESAKE OF THE SONG YOU’RE THE […]

1510s BORN 1516: QUEEN MARY I OF ENGLAND 1840s BORN 1848: LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY (ARTIST) 1860s 1861: JEFFERSON DAVIS INAUGURATED AS PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT OF CONFEDERATE STATES 1862: FIRST SESSION OF CONFEDERATE CONGRESS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1870s 1879: AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI GRANTED DESIGN PATENT FOR STATUE OF LIBERTY […]