January 14th 1963George Wallace is sworn in as Alabama's new governor, and vow segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. Months later, Wallace stands in the schoolhouse door of the University of Alabama,trying to block black stude
January 15th, 1929Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta. Kings non-violent campaign to illegal segregation of African-Americans in the South included the March on Washington. I have a dream. My four little children will one da
January 18th, 1943During World War Two, the Soviets Union says it's broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad. But another year passes before the sieges find lifted in the city now known as the St.Petersburg, Russia. 1912British explorer Robert F. Scot
January 19th, 1809Poet and author Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston. Among his classic dark tales, The Raven and the Tell-Tale Heart. 1807Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General whose surrender spelt the end of the Civil War is born in Westmoreland Co
December 22nd, 1989A popular uprising topples Eastern Europes last hard-line communist ruler, Nicolae Ceau?escu of Romania. Days later, Ceau?escu and his wife are tried and convicted by a military tribunal, then promptly shot by a firing squad . 2001
December 21st, 1620Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower go ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. Thats where they settle the first permanent European colony in whats known as New England. 1988A terrorist bomb explodes aboard a Pa
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. December 24th,1968 The astronauts of Apollo VIII become the first human beings to orbit the moon. They read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a TV broadcast on Christmas Eve
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Janurary 3rd,1777. During the Revolution War, General George Washingtons army wows the British in the battle of Princeton, New Jersey, that follows Washington and his troops crossing the Delaware River and beating the Hessian's nearby Trenton. 1990Pa
January 12th,1991Just days before UN deadline,congress authorises the President George.W.Bush to use force to expell Iraq from Kuwait. The action taken by the US congress today is a very important step in hopefully getting Saddam Hussein to realize w
January 6th,1412According to tradition, Joan of Arc, Frances national heroine and Cathelic Saint is born in the village of Domrmy. 1838Inventor Samuel Morse gives his first public demonstration of the telegraph dots-dashes in Morristown New Jersey. 1
January 7th, 1789The United States holds its first the first presidential election more than a decade after the declaration of independence. Americans both for elect tours who a month later choose George Washington to be the nations first President.
January 8th,1935Elvis Presley,the king of RockRoll,whos a famouse inspired countless performers is born in Tupelo, Mississippi . 1964This administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America. In Washington,President Lynd
January 10th, 1776Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, one of the most influential works of the American revolution. The pamphlet urges freedom for Britains colonies in America , just months before the declaration of independence. 1863 All aboard but
January 11th, 1964For the first time, the U.S government warns that smoking may be hazardous to your health. Surgeon General Dr. Luther Terry: It is a judgment of the committee, that cigarette smoking contributes substantially, to mythology from cert
Januart 5th,2000The US government decides 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba, that move touches of angry protesters by Cuban-Americans in Miami, home of Elians US relatives. After a legal battle, the government seizes
December 27th, 1979The Soviet Union invades neighboring Afghanistan in Central Asia beginning a decade-long occupation. Soviet forces leave after the occupation becomes a quiet mire and the communist superpower faces collapse. 1831Naturalist Charles
December 30th, 2006Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is executed, for the slaying of the Iraqi Shiites during his regime. 1903In Chicago,a blaze even deadlier than the so-called Great Fire of more than 20 years earlier. About 600 people are killed
December 23rd 1823 Twas the night before Chirstmas,when all through the house .Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.Clement C. Moores Christmas poem A Visit from St. Nicholas is first published in the upstate New York Troy Sentinel newspaper
December 25th .1776 A surprise attack during the Revolutionary War braves new life into the American cause. General George Washington and his Continental Army troops cross the Delaware River and strike Hessian Forces at Trenton, New Jersey. 1991 The
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