Today In History – September 10
Today in History in 1960 Mickey Mantle hits what is thought to be the Major League baseball's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet...
continue readingToday in History in 1960 Mickey Mantle hits what is thought to be the Major League baseball's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet...
continue readingToday in History in 1791 Washington, D.C. is named after 1st President of the United States George Washington.Our on this day in history archives cont...
continue readingToday in History in 2022 Queen Elizabeth II dies at the age of 96 and her son, Charles III becomes the King of the United Kingdom and Head of the Comm...
continue readingToday in History in 1533 future-Queen Elizabeth I of England is born, as the daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII of England, who had expected a mal...
continue readingToday in History in 1901 American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in ...
continue readingToday in History in1862 in the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia acro...
continue readingToday in History in 1781 Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen...
continue readingToday in History in 1658 Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England; in 1783 The Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War; and in 2...
continue readingToday in History in 1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair....
continue readingToday in History in 1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years — longer than any major European monarch.Our on this day in his...
continue readingToday in History in 1422 King Henry V of England dies in France from dysentery. Henry VI of England becomes king of England at the age of just under n...
continue readingToday in History in 1836 the city of Houston, Texas is founded; in 1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city; and in 1967 Thurgood Marshall was confirmed a...
continue readingToday in History in 2005 Hurricane Katrina reaches the US' Gulf coast with winds at a speed of 225 kph. The city of New Orleans is among the places th...
continue readingToday in History in 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream speech, calling for Civil R...
continue readingToday in History in 2003 Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) f...
continue readingToday in History in 1768 James Cook sets sail from England on the HMS Endeavour.Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birth...
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