A Daily Slice of History

This Day in History - February 9th, 2023 09.02.2023 4:07 ↓

1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy says there are communists in the State Department

This Day in History - February 8th, 2023 08.02.2023 3:56 ↓

1904: Russo-Japanese War begins

This Day in History - Ronald Reagan Part Two 08.02.2023 4:53 ↓

1911: Ronald Reagan is born, part two

This Day in History - February 7th, 2023 07.02.2023 3:11 ↓

1613: Michail Romanov becomes Tsar of Russia; beginning of the Romanov dynasty

This Day in History - February 6th, 2023 06.02.2023 6:58 ↓

1911: Ronald Reagan is born (Part 1)

This Day in History - February 3rd, 2023 03.02.2023 5:07 ↓

Special Report: Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City

This Day in History - February 2nd, 2023 02.02.2023 3:34 ↓

1887: Groundhog Day is celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

This Day in History - February 1st, 2023 01.02.2023 5:44 ↓

1913: Jim Thorpe signs a deal with the MLB team New York Giants

This Day in History - January 31st, 2023 31.01.2023 4:47 ↓

1874: Jesse James and his band of outlaws rob a train in Gads Hill, Missouri

This Day in History - January 30th, 2023 30.01.2023 6:04 ↓

1835: Andrew Jackson escapes an assassination attempt

This Day in History - January 27th, 2023 27.01.2023 3:37 ↓

1888: National Geographic Society is founded

This Day in History - January 26th, 2023 26.01.2023 3:34 ↓

1784: Ben Franklin expresses his dissatisfaction with the bald eagle as the national symbol

This Day in History - January 25th, 2023 26.01.2023 3:54 ↓

1919: Formal comission for the League of Nations is establishedcommission

This Day in History - January 24th, 2023 24.01.2023 2:53 ↓

1848: Gold is found at Sutter’s Mill

This Day in History - January 23rd, 2023 23.01.2023 4:49 ↓

1855: John Moses Browning is born

This Day in History - January 20th, 2023 20.01.2023 5:31 ↓

1981: Iran Hostage Crisis ends

This Day in History - January 19th, 2023 19.01.2023 3:18 ↓

1825: Thomas Kensett and his father-in-law are awarded the first US patent for tin cans for food storage

TDIH - January 18th, 2023 19.01.2023 3:54 ↓

1778: Captain Cook lands in Hawaii

This Day in History - January 17th, 2023 17.01.2023 3:07 ↓

1984: The Supreme Court rules that home video recording devices do not constitute copyright infringement

This Day in History - January 16th, 2023 16.01.2023 5:42 ↓

1919: States ratify prohibition

This Day in History - January 13th, 2023 14.01.2023 5:09 ↓

1128: Pope Honorious II recognizes the Knights Templar via a papal sanction

This Day in History - January 12th, 2023 12.01.2023 5:13 ↓

1913: Joseph Stalin officially signs himself as "Stalin" for the first time

This Day in History - January 11th, 2023 11.01.2023 3:48 ↓

1908: President Theodore Roosevelt makes the Grand Canyon a national monument

This Day in History - January 10th, 2023 10.01.2023 3:01 ↓

49 BCE: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon

This Day in History - Janaury 9th, 2023 09.01.2023 4:41 ↓

1493: Christopher Colombus mistakes manatees for mermaids