1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species” 1924 – General Feng Yu-Hsiang, a warlord from the north of China, turns on his…
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species” 1924 – General Feng Yu-Hsiang, a warlord from the north of China, turns on his…
1644 – Areopagitica, a pamphlet by John Milton, decrying censorship, is published. 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies (b. 1817) without a…
1911 – The funeral of Paul and Laura (daughter of Karl Marx) Lafargue in Paris is attended by Lenin; the two socialists died in a…
1919 – US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations 1962 – Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons 1969 – Apollo…
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte becomes dictator (1st consul) of France 1904 – 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes 1967 – 1st unmanned…
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays 1942 – 1st…
1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.…
1860 – Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States. 1913 – Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led…
1914 – Britain declares war on Turkey and annexes Cyprus, occupied since 1878; the immediate reason is to keep it from being taken by Turkey…
1862 – Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis) 1875 – Massachusetts Rifle Association is founded in Boston 1918 – The Allied armistice with…