A Daily Slice of History

This Day in History - January 6th, 2023 06.01.2023 5:04 ↓

1838: Samuel Morse unveils the telegraph

This Day in History - January 5th, 2023 05.01.2023 3:50 ↓

1781: Benedict Arnold captures and destroys Richmond, Virginia

This Day in History - January 4th, 2023 04.01.2023 6:23 ↓

1847: Samuel Colt sells his revolver to the US government

This Day in History - January 3rd, 2023 03.01.2023 3:39 ↓

1985: Leontyne Price gives her final operatic performance

This Day in History - December 13th, 2022 13.12.2022 3:06 ↓

1774: Paul Revere rode to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to warn of the coming of the British

This Day in History - December 12th, 2022 12.12.2022 3:18 ↓

1913: The "Mona Lisa" is recovered in Florence

This Day in History - December 9th, 2022 09.12.2022 4:35 ↓

1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas Premieres

This Day in History - December 8th, 2022 08.12.2022 2:55 ↓

1915: “In Flanders Fields” published anonymously in Punch magazine

This Day in History - December 7th, 2022 07.12.2022 3:18 ↓

1941: Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

This Day in History - December 6th, 2022 06.12.2022 3:21 ↓

2017: Donald Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

This Day in History - December 5th, 2022 05.12.2022 3:35 ↓

1945: Aircraft squadron disappears over the Bermuda Triangle

This Day in History - December 2nd, 2022 02.12.2022 4:47 ↓

2001: Enron declares bankruptcy

This Day in History - December 1st, 2022 01.12.2022 3:39 ↓

2019: First recorded patient develops symptoms of COVID-19

This Day in History - November 30th, 2022 30.11.2022 3:01 ↓

1954: Meteorite strikes Alabama woman

This Day in History - November 29th, 2022 29.11.2022 3:59 ↓

1942: United States coffee rationing during WWII begins

This Day in History - November 22nd, 2022 22.11.2022 3:31 ↓

1963: United States President JFK was assassinated 

This Day in History - November 21st, 2022 21.11.2022 3:36 ↓

1783: Two men fly over Paris in a hot air balloon

This Day in History - November 17th, 2022 17.11.2022 3:44 ↓

1558: Elizabeth I begins her reign as Queen of England

This Day in History - November 18th, 2022 17.11.2022 2:44 ↓

1883: Railroads create the first time zones

This Day in History - November 16th, 2022 16.11.2022 3:26 ↓

2001: First Harry Potter film releases

This Day in History - November 15th, 2022 15.11.2022 5:02 ↓

1720: The pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Reed, and John “Calico Jack” Rackham are captured and brought to Jamaica for trial

This Day in History - November 14th, 2022 14.11.2022 2:27 ↓

1969: Apollo 12 mission lifts off

This Day in History - November 11th, 2022 11.11.2022 4:28 ↓

1918: Armistice Day marks the end of WWI

This Day in History - November 10th, 2022 10.11.2022 2:57 ↓

1940: Walt Disney begins to serve as an informant for the FBI

This Day in History - November 9th, 2022 09.11.2022 4:15 ↓

1799: Napoleon stages his coup and becomes dictator of France