Category: Today In History

May 24

1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan. 1830 – “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Sarah Josepha Hale is published. 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail,...
The Brooklyn Bridge

May 23

1059 – Henri I crowns his son King Philip I of France 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the English 1493 – King Charles VIII and Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis 1568 – The Netherlands declare independence from Spain. 1701 – Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and of murdering...

May 20

1293 – Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed 1303 – Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to the English and arranges for marriage of English Prince Edward to French Princess Isabella 1521 – Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball (and it wasn’t dropped on his toe.) 1639 – Dorchester Mass, forms first school funded by local taxes 1704 – Elias...
The Dream

Today in History

332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. 1096 – First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany 1291 – Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land 1565 – The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta. 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John...
Apollo 10 launched in 1969

Today in History

1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. 1536 – George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason. 1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage. 1673 – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec. 1792...
"Public buildings best serve the public by being beautiful." Cass Gilbert

Today in History

1527 – Florence becomes a republic 1606 – 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia 1792 – Denmark abolishes slave trade 1817 – Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1861 – Kentucky proclaims its neutrality Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir (1822-1900), inventor of the gas engine 1862 – Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir a Belgian engineer developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. By 1859, Lenoir’s experimentation without...
From the NTSB: "About 1735 e.d.t.,on May 16, 1977, the right landing gear of a New York Airways, Inc., Sikorsky Model S-61L helicopter, N619PA, failed while the aircraft was parked, with rotors turning, on the rooftop heliport of the Pan Am Building in New York, New York.