Tag: History
History of 02 November
History of 02 November
1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of Palestine.
1920 - The first...
History of 01 November
History of 01 November
1904 - The Army War College in Washington, DC, enrolled in the first class.
1911 - Italy used planes to drop bombs on...
History of 31 October
History of 31 October
1914 - The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) joined the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria).
1922 - Benito Mussolini became prime minister of...
History of 30 October
History of 30 October
1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was...
History of 29 October
History of 29 October
1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.
1939 - The USSR...
History of 28 October
History of 28 October
1904 - The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting.
1919 - The U.S. Congress enacted the Volstead Act, also known...
History of 27 October
History of 27 October
1904 - The New York subway system officially opened. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America.
1925 - Fred Waller...
History of 26 October
History of 26 October
1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden.
1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II.
1944 -...
History of 25 October
History of 25 October
1936 - The Anti-Comintern Pact, an agreement between Japan and Germany, was signed.
1947 - Movie studio executives meeting in New York...
History of 24 October
History of 24 October
1901 - Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was...
History of 23 October
History of 23 October
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States.
1915 -...
History of 22 October
History of 22 October
1907 - The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks.
1939 - The first televised...