History Everyday

466: | US President Abraham Lincoln is Shot by John Wilkes Booth |

465: | CIA Launches Mind Control Project MK Ultra |

464: | The American Civil War Begins with The Battle of Fort Sumter |

463: | President Truman Fires General Douglas MacArthur From Command of Forces in Korea |

462: | American B-52 Bombers Begin Bombing North Vietnam |

461: | South Vietnam Army Attempts to Cut Off the Ho Chi Minh Trail |

460: | The Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara |

459: | Operation Ripper: The Korean War |

458: | The Battle of the Alamo: The Texas Revolution |

457: | The Boston Massacre Contributes to the Outbreak of the American Revolution |

456: | The First Congress of the United States Meets in New York City |

455: | A Video Captures The Beating of Rodney King by LAPD |

454: | Wilt Chamberlain Scores 100 Points in an NBA Game Setting League Record |

453: | Yellowstone National Park Opens as the First National Park in the World |

452: | ATF Agents Raid Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas |

451: | Abraham Lincoln Delivers Famous Speech that is Largely Responsible for his Winning of the Presidency |

450: | Napoleon Escapes Exile from the Island of Elba |

449: | Samuel Colt is Awarded US Patent for his Revolver |

448: | The Final State of the Mexican War of Independence From Spain |

447: | Japan Attacks California During WWII |

446: | The Battle of Buena Vista, The Mexican-American War |

445: | The Battle of Verdun Begins WWI |

444: | Madison Square Garden Pro Nazi Rally |

443: | Japanese Internment in The US During WWII |

442: | The Nazis Arrest Members of the White Rose Resistance |

441: | 1801 US Presidential Election Ends in a Tie |

440: | Fidel Castro Becomes Premier of Cuba, Begins Decades long Reign |

439: | Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer is Sentenced to 15 Life Sentences |

438: | Fire Bombing in the Battle of Dresden WWII |

437: | Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls |

436: | The NAACP is Founded in 1909 |

435: | Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years as a political prisoner |

434: | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam |

433: | British Parliament Declares Massachusetts to be in Full Rebellion |

432: | Japan Invades Singapore During WWII |

431: | The United States Bans All Cuban Imports and Exports |

430: | Ulysses S. Grant Give the Union their First Victory of the Civil War |

429: | Astronauts Land on the Moon During Apollo 14 Mission |

428: | George Washington is Unanimously Elected First President of The United States |

427: | American Entry into WWI, USA Severs Diplomatic Relations With Germany |

426: | The Mexican- American War Comes to an End with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |

425: | 4 Students Start the Greensboro Sit-Ins Protest During the Civil Rights Movement |

424: | US Congress Passes the 13th Amendment, Officially Ending Slavery in USA |

423: | Adolf Hitler Rises to Power and Becomes Chancellor of Germany |

422: | The First Native American US Senator |

421: | Elvis Presly Makes his Debut on Television and Becomes a Star Over Night |

420: | WWII Siege of Leningrad Ends After 900 Days |

419: | World's Largest Diamond Discovered ( Over 3100 Carats) |

418: | Alexander Graham Bell has First Transcontinental US Phone Call |

417: | Winston Churchill and FDR Meet at the Casablanca Conference |