2009-02-24 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February 24th, 1868, the House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson

2009-02-13 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February 13th, 1935, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles

2009-02-11 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February tenth, 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect. On this date:
In 1763, France

2009-02-09 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February ninth, 1950, in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin) charged the State Department was riddled with Communis

2009-02-08 所属栏目:历史上的今天

421 - Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1575 - Universiteit Leiden founded, and given the motto "Praesidium Libertatis".
1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at s

2009-02-07 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February seventh, 1943, the government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person for the r

2009-02-06 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February sixth, 1952, Britain's King George the Sixth died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabet

2009-02-04 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February fifth, 1937, President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court. On

2009-02-04 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February fourth, 1789, electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. On this date:
In 1783, Britain declared a form

2009-02-03 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February third, 1959, a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, claimed the lives of rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson

2009-02-02 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February second, 1536, the Argentine city of Buenos Aires was founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain.

2009-02-01 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On February first, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensb

2009-01-31 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On January 31st, 1950, President Truman announced he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb. On

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 30th, 1922, Vladimir I. Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Sociali

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 31st, 1879, Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrated his electric incandescent light in Menl

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 28th, 1917, the New York "Evening Mail" published a facetious essay by H.L.

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 29th, 1851, the first American Young Men's Christian Association was organized, in Boston.

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 26th, 1799, the late George Washington was eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as "first in w

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 24th, 1951, Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors," the first opera wr

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
In A.D. 336, the first recorded celebration of Christmas on December 25th took place in Rome. On this date:
In 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned king of England

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 22nd, 1894, French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial th

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 23rd, 1893, the Engelbert Humperdinck opera "Haensel und Gretel" was first performe

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 20th, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. On this date:

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 21st, 1620, Pilgrims aboard the "Mayflower" went ashore for the first time at prese

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On December 18th, 1944, in a pair of rulings, the Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese