This Week in History (3-9 November): SUNDAY: 1941 The order to - TopicsExpress



          

This Week in History (3-9 November): SUNDAY: 1941 The order to bomb Pearl Harbor is given; 1964 DC residents cast first presidential votes; 1974 Carrie creeps out audiences; 1986 Iran arms sales revealed MONDAY: 1842 Pres. Lincoln marries Mary Todd; 1922 Entrance to King Tut’s tomb is discovered; 2008 Pres. Obama is elected as America’s first Black president TUESDAY: 1862 Pres. Lincoln removes Gen. McClellan from command; 1977 Pres. Bush marries Laura Welch; 2009 Fort Hood shooting kills 13 WEDNESDAY: 1860 Pres. Lincoln is elected; 1861 Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederacy; 1962 UN condemns apartheid THURSDAY: 1861 Yanks and Rebels clash at Battle of Belmont; 1916 Jeanette Rankin becomes first US congresswoman; 1944 Pres. FD Roosevelt elected an unprecedented 4 times FRIDAY: 1775 Pres. Washington seeks to make militias into a military; 1864 Pres. Lincoln is reelected; 1939 Hitler survives assassination attempt; 1960 Pres. Kennedy is elected president SATURDAY: 1862 Pres. Lincoln places Ambrose Burnside in command of the Union Army of the Potomac; 1938 Nazis launch Kristallnacht; 1989 East Germany opens the Berlin Wall This Week in Minnesota History: SUNDAY: 1989 The Timberwolves basketball team plays its first game and loses; 1998 Jesse “The Body” Ventura is elected governor MONDAY: 1850 Fort Gaines is renamed Fort Ripley in honor of Eleazar Ripley, a general in the War of 1812. The fort would be abandoned in 1878 TUESDAY: 1862 307 Dakota are sentenced to death for their uprising in the US-Dakota War; 1875 Suffrage is extended to women in elections pertaining to schools WEDNESDAY: 1874 St. Olaf College is incorporated THURSDAY: 1905 Horace Austin, sixth governor of the state, dies in Minneapolis FRIDAY: 1926 The old Mendota bridge to Fort Snelling opens and is dedicated to the men of the 151st Field Artillery who had been killed in World War I SATURDAY: 1862 In the aftermath of the US–Dakota War a mob attacks a group of Dakota captives in New Ulm. The troops guarding the captives manage to restore order. 5 days later, in Henderson, settlers attack Dakota captives being led to Fort Snelling Photos: Pres.-Elect Barack Obama, 2008; Pres. Lincoln and McClellan at Antietam; Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin; Pres. Kennedy
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:54:01 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015