this day in history

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1770 – Five Americans are killed by British troops in an event that would later become known as the Boston Massacre (More info) 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1827 – A group of masked and costumed students dance through the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, marking the beginning of the city’s famous Mardi Gras celebrations (More info) 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1896 – The Tootsie Roll is introduced (More info) 1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill establishing the Federal Radio Commission — later the Federal Communications Commission — which regulated the use of US radio frequencies (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish ‘The Communist Manifesto’ (More info) 1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, CT (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1801 – The electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is broken by the House of Representatives, which elected Jefferson president (More info) 1820 – The US Senate passes the Missouri Compromise, an attempt to deal with the dangerously divisive issue of extending slavery into the western territories (More i

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1923 – English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen (More info) 1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a US patent for nylon (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1942 – Year-round daylight saving time is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources (More info) 1950 – Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the US Department of State of being filled with Communists (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1946 – Mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel opens The Pink Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas (More info) 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1620 – William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts (More info) 1898 – Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1773 – In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor in what would come to be known as the Boston Tea Party (More info) 1920 – The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China and kills an estimated 200,000 (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage (More info) 1862 – At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside in a decisive loss for the Union army (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1901 – Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean (More info) 1913 – Two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece ‘The Mona Lisa’ is recovered inside Italian waiter Vincenzo Peruggia’