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August 25, 2011
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American women the right to vote, was certified in effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
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In 1910, Thomas... August 24, 2011
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 25, 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
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In 1916, the National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.
In... August 23, 2011
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. (Sacco and Vanzetti were vindicated in 1977 by... August 19, 2011
Today's Highlights in History: On Aug. 20, 1911, The New York Times sent a message around the world by regular commercial cable to see how long it would take; the dispatch, which said simply, "Times, New York: This message sent around world... August 16, 2011
Today's Highlight in History: In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Ga., lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who'd maintained his... August 15, 2011
Today's Highlight in History: In 1777, American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington.
In 1812, Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
In 1858, a telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria... August 14, 2011
Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 15, 1961, as workers began constructing a Berlin Wall made of concrete, East German soldier Conrad Schumann leapt to freedom over a tangle of barbed wire in a scene captured in a famous photograph.
In... August 6, 2011
It's Monday, the 220th day of 2011. There are 145 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 8, 1911, President William Howard Taft signed a measure raising the number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives from... August 6, 2011
Today's Highlight in History: In 1782, Gen. George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers.
In 1882, the famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia... August 5, 2011
Today's Highlight in History: In 1911, actress-comedian Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, N.Y.
In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, arriving in Kingsdown, England, from France in 14 1/2 hours.
In... August 4, 2011
Today's Highlight in History: In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1861, which included the first-ever federal personal income tax, a 3-percent levy on incomes above $800 (however, no income tax ended up actually being... August 3, 2011
On This Day in History
1753 - George Washington became a Master Mason.
1821 - "The Saturday Evening Post" was published as a weekly.
1830 The city of Chicago was planned.
1927 - Radio station 2XAG, later... August 2, 2011
Highlights in history on this date:
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain, looking for a route to India across the Atlantic, encountering the New World instead.
1571 - The Ottomans massacre inhabitants of Famagusta, Cyprus,... August 1, 2011
1100 King William II of England, reviled as the brutal and corrupt son of William the Conqueror, is killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest, Hampshire, and is succeeded by his brother, Henry I.
1807 Billy Blue advertises in The Sydney... July 30, 2011
Today's Highlight in History: On July 31, 1991, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.
On this date: In 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French... July 29, 2011
Today's Highlight in History: On July 30, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making "In God We Trust" the national motto, replacing "E Pluribus Unum" ("Caesar through Latin class slept").
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