September 18th, 1850In Washington, Americas divide between North and South over slavery deepens. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing slave owners to reclaim slaves which escape to other states. The law helps fill the outbreak of the civi
September 19th, 1777In upstate New York, a turning point during the American Revolution. The Continental Army defeats the British in the first of two Battles of Saratoga. American victories in both battles convince the French to aid the Revolutionary
September 20th, 1519Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. The Portuguese explorer is killed in the Philippines, but one of his ships eventually becomes the first to circle the
September 22nd, 1776, in New York, the British hang Nathan Hale as a spy during the American Revolution. Hales last words are said to have been I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. 1980, Iraq Sadam Husein invades neighboring Iran
We did get something as a gift after the election.September 23rd, 1952 Future president Richard Nixon uses what's then a new medium, television, to make his case.
September 24th, 1976, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years in prison for taking part in a bank robbery with her kidnapers. She serves nearly 2 years before President Jimmy Carter commutes her sentence. In 2001, President Bill Cli
September 29th, 1938, Europes major powers agree to let Nazi Germany annex Czechoslovaks Sudetenland region. The next day British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain says the pact signed in the Germany city of Munich means peace for our time. As symbo
September 10th, 1989, a sign of communism facing its collapse in Eastern Europe, Hungary allows about 7,000 refugees from communist East Germany to leave for noncommunist West Germany. The move affectively bypasses the Berlin Wall and iconic symbol o
August 29th, 2005. America suffers its most destructive natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm blows ashore in Southeast Louisiana, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate. Katrina kills eighteen hundred people across the Gulf Coas
August 21st, 1991In Moscow, a coup by hard-line Communists against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapses, leading the popular uprising against the coup plotter Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation. Gorbachev returns to power. But th
August 22nd, 2005. The last Jewish settlers leave the Gaza Strip. That happens nearly 40 years after Israel captures the territory during the 6-Day War. The Israeli withdrawal makes way for Palestinian control in Gaza. 1996. In Washington, President
August 26th, 1920The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution takes effect giving women the right to vote. Carrie Chapman Catt is one of the leaders in the women`s suffrage movement. Woman Suffrage is a long story of hard work and heartache, at least on
August 9th, 1945The United States drops a second atomic bomb on Japan during WWII. This time, the target is the city of Nagasaki, where the nuclear blast kills an estimated 74-thousand people. President Harry Truman: If Japan does not surrender, bomb
August 27th, 1883, one of the worlds most devastating explosions as the island volcano Krakatoa erupts in the South Pacific. The resulting tidal waves in Indonesia Sunda Strait kill some 36,000 people on the islands of Java and Sumatra. 1908, In your
August 28th, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. caps a major civil rights march in Washington with a speech for the ages at the Lincoln Memorial. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th
August 25th, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces in Europe liberate Paris, ending 4 years of Nazi Germanys occupation of the French Capital. 1875, Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel, making the journey from
September 8th, 1900, Americas deadliest natural disaster as a hurricane slams in the Galveston Texas. The storm kills estimated 6,000 to 12,000 people, destroying much of the city. 1974, just a month after taking office , President Gerald Fort pardon
September 7th 1940Nazi Germany begins heavy bombing of London and other major cities in Britain during WWII. CBS reporter Edward describes the devastation of what becomes known as the Blitz. One may see a light of flare definitely hit a number of cam
September 5th, 1972You are welcome. Israeli Olympic team is destroyed much of it, some of them are officials. A massacre at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, in what's then West Germany. Palestinian guerrillas attack the Israeli Olympic team, killi
September 4th, 1957In little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of America`s schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus orders State`s National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school
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