A Day in History!

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On this date in 1903 The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.

 

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June 16, 1896
Huge tsunami kills over 20,000 people in Japan.

 

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On this day in 1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies at childbirth, her husband Emperor Shah Jahan I will have the Taj Mahal built in her memory taking 17 years to complete.

 

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June 18, 1812:
President James Madison signs the Declaration of War against Great Britain marking the beginning of the War of 1812.

 

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On this date in 1867 The Dominion Of Canada is formed.

 

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July 2, 1881
Only four months into his administration, President James A. Garfield is shot as he walks through a railroad waiting room in Washington, D.C. His assailant, Charles J. Guiteau, was a disgruntled and perhaps insane office seeker who had unsuccessfully sought an appointment to the U.S. consul in Paris. The president was shot in the back and the arm, and Guiteau was arrested.

Garfield, mortally ill, was treated in Washington and then taken to the seashore at Elberon, New Jersey, where he attempted to recuperate with his family. During this time, Vice President Chester A. Arthur served as acting president. On September 19, 1881, after 80 days, President Garfield died of blood poisoning. The following day, Arthur was inaugurated as the 21st president of the United States.

 

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On this day in 1964 President Lyndon Johnson signed The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 which was meant to prohibit segregation in public places.

 

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July 3, 1863
On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s last attempt at breaking the Union line ends in disastrous failure, bringing the most decisive battle of the American Civil War to an end.

On July 3, Lee, having failed on the right and the left, planned an assault on Meade’s center. A 15,000-man strong column under General George Pickett was organized, and Lee ordered a massive bombardment of the Union positions. The 10,000 Federals answered the Confederate artillery onslaught, and for more than an hour the guns raged in the heaviest cannonade of the Civil War. At 3 p.m., Pickett led his force into no-man’s-land and found that Lee’s bombardment had failed. As Pickett’s force attempted to cross the mile distance to Cemetery Ridge, Union artillery blew great holes in their lines. Meanwhile, Yankee infantry flanked the main body of “Pickett’s charge” and began cutting down the Confederates. Only a few hundred Virginians reached the Union line, and within minutes they all were dead, dying, or captured. In less than an hour, more than 7,000 Confederate troops had been killed or wounded.

 

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The USS Indianapolis delivered parts of the atomic bomb to the island of Tinian to be used on Hiroshima.

 

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On July 26[sup]th[/sup] in 1775, the U.S. postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general.

 

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A US Army B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building killing 14 people and injuring 26 people.

 

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July 29, 1981
Nearly one billion television viewers in 74 countries tune in to witness the marriage of Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, to Lady Diana Spencer, a young English schoolteacher. Married in a grand ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in the presence of 2,650 guests, the couple’s romance was for the moment the envy of the world. Their first child, Prince William, was born in 1982, and their second, Prince Harry, in 1984.

 

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August 15, 1969 Woodstock opened in upstate New York.

 

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August 15, 1947: India and Pakistan gain independence from the UK

The Indian Independence Bill, which carves the independent nations of India and Pakistan out of the former Mogul Empire, comes into force at the stroke of midnight. The long-awaited agreement ended 200 years of British rule and was hailed by Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi as the “noblest act of the British nation.” However, religious strife between Hindus and Muslims, which had delayed Britain’s granting of Indian independence after World War II, soon marred Gandhi’s exhilaration. In the northern province of Punjab, which was sharply divided between Hindu-dominated India and Muslim-dominated Pakistan, hundreds of people were killed in the first few days after independence.

 

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On this date in 1935 Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed in an airplane crash in Alaska.

 

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August 15, 1979:
Apocalypse Now, the acclaimed Vietnam War film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, opens in theaters around the United States.

 

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Can you believe that it has been 40 years since Elvis Died????????

Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977 at his Graceland Mansion.

 

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August 16, 1943: Actor Robert De Niro is born.

 

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On this date in 1915 a hurricane killed 275 people in Galveston, Texas.

 

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August 26, 1939:
For the first time ever, a Major League Baseball game is broadcast on television. The Brooklyn Dodgers game against the Cincinnati Reds is broadcast live from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

 

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On this date in 2005 Hurricane Katrina hits the Louisiana coast.

 

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August 29,1915: Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman is born.
August 29, 1982: Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman dies.

 

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On this date in 1963 a hotline was established between Washington D. C. and Moscow.

 

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August 30, 1967:
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. He would remain on the Supreme Court for 24 years before retiring for health reasons.

 

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On this date in 1997 the funeral for Diana, Princess of Wales was held in London.