Museum-Historic Events Of The Month
FEBRUARY, 2019
FEBRUARY 12, 1809 ABRAHAM LINCOLN BORN
FEBRUARY 22, 1732 GEORGE WASHINGTON BORN
FEBRUARY 14, 1849 Mathew Brady took the first portrait of a U.S. President in office. The underrated, but great, James K. Polk
FEBRUARY 3, 2019 SUPER BOWL SUNDAY
FEBRUARY 14, ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
MARCH
March 12, 1888 The Blizzard Of 1888
Albert Einstein Born March 14, 1879
Alexander Graham Bell Born March 13, 1847
Johann Sebastian Bach Born March 21, 1685
Harry Houdini Born March 24, 1874
"The flag of the United States deployed on the surface of the moon"
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the United States Navy in 1889, and by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.
APRIL
Emile Zola Born April 2, 1840
Thomas Jefferson Born April 13, 1743
"In God We Trust" was included on all newly minted US coins starting on April 22, 1864
Charlie Chaplin Born April 16, 1889
William Shakespeare born April 23, 1564 (Two Gentlemen Of Verona)
Samuel F.B. Morse, father of American Photography and
the inventor of the telegraph. Born April 27, 1791
George Washington was inaugurated as the first American President
April 30, 1789
The State Of Israel Was Established. April 30, 1948
Chaim Weizmann was elected its first president
HISTORIC EVENTS OF THE MONTH OF MAY 2019
Cinco De Mayo
May 6, 1937
May 8, 1884 President Harry Truman born
May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh took off
on his flight across the Atlantic
May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message
Monday May 27, 2019 Memorial Day
HISTORIC EVENTS OF THE MONTH OF JUNE 2019
June 1, 1926 Marilyn Monroe Born
June 6, 1944 D-Day
June 14, 1777 Flag Day
June 24, 1895 Jack Dempsey Born
June 25, 1950 The Beginning Of The Korean War
HISTORIC EVENTS OF THE MONTH OF JULY 2019
( JEWISH SOLDIERS ON LEAVE IN LONDON, 1919 )
July 3, 1976 The Raid on Entebbe
July 4, 1776 - The Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress.
July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Landed On /the Moon
July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway born
July 24, 1898 Amelia Earhart born
July 26, 1856 George Bernard Shaw Born
July 30, 1863 Henry Ford Born
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July 31, 1790 The U.S. Patent Office first opened its doors
HISTORIC EVENTS OF THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2019
August 1, 1779. Francis Scott Key Born
August 6, 1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson Born
August 7, 1876 Mata Hari Born
August 14, 1945. Japan Surrendered Ending WWII. The documents were signed in September
August 15, 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte Born
August 19, 1871 Orville Wright Born
August 24, 70 A.D. Mount Vesuvius Erupted. Pompeii Humaine
August 29, 1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes Born
HISTORIC EVENTS OF THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2019
VJ Day. September 2, 1945
The Island Of Manhattan Discovered by Henry Hudson. September 4, 1609
The First Continental Congress Assembled. September 5, 1774
The signing of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787
9/11/2001 Terrorist Attack On The United States.
Jesse Owens Born. September 12, 1913
General John J. Pershing Born. September 13, 1860
James Fenimore Cooper Born. September 15, 1789
Agatha Christie Born. September 15, 1890
The Mayflower Departed England Bound For America. September 16, 1620
Greta Garbo Born. September 18, 1905
President Abraham Lincoln Issued The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
September 22, 1862
HISTORIC EVENTS OF THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2019
October 1, 1908. Henry Ford's Model T Went On Sale
October 2, 1968. California's Redwood National Park Was Established
October 13, 1775. The United States Navy Was Born
October 14, 1890. Dwight D. Eisenhower Born
October 21, 1879. Thomas Edison Successfully Tested An Electric Incandescent Bulb
October 22, 1811. Franz Liszt Born
October 25, 1881. Pablo Picasso Born
October 27, 1858. Theodore Roosevelt Born
October 26, 1886. The Statue Of Liberty Dedicated
October 28, 1919. Prohibition Began
October 31. HALLOWEEN
HISTORIC EVENTS OF THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2019
November 2, 1047, The first and only flight of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose
November 2, 1795. President James K. Polk born
A great and underrated President
November 4, 1922 King Tut's Tomb discovered
November 26, 1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon
first went inside the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
November 4, 1879 Will Rogers born
November 5, 2019 Election Day
November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected
16th President of the United States
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November 8, 1895 X-Rays discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen
November 10, 1775. The United States Marine Corps was established
November 11th Veterans Day.
Memorial Day 1922 Waukesha, Wisconsin
November 13, 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson born
November 14, 1765 Robert Fulton born
November 18, 1789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre was born
(Matthew Brady at Gettysburg)
November 19, 1863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address
"November 24, 1859 - Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was first published,
theorizing that all the living creatures descended from a common ancestor." (The History Place)
"November 26, 1789 - The first American holiday occurred, proclaimed by President George Washington to be Thanksgiving Day,
a day of prayer and public thanksgiving in gratitude
for the successful establishment of the new American republic. "(The History Place)
"Plate 1 of The Birds of America by John James Audubon, depicting a wild turkey" (Wikipedia)
November 30, 1835. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born
November 30, 1874 Winston Churchill born
"November 30, 1782 - A provisional peace treaty was signed between Great Britain and the United States heralding the end of America's War of Independence. The final treaty was signed in Paris on September 3, 1783. It declared the U.S. "...to be free, sovereign and independent states..." and that the British Crown "...relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof." (The History Place)"
HISTORIC EVENTS OF THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2019
December 4, 1795 Thomas Carlyle Born
December 5, 1933 The 18th Amendment (Prohibition) was repealed
December 6, 1865 The 13th Amendment abolishing slaver was ratified
December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A day that will live in infamy
December 11, 1901 - The first transatlantic radio signal was transmitted
by Guglielmo Marconi from Cornwall, England, to St. John's, Newfoundland. (The History Place)
December 14, 1911 Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole
December 16, 1770 Ludwig Van Beethoven born
December 17, 1903 First Powered Airplane Flight made by the Wright Brothers
December 24, 1905 Howard Hughes born
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December 25th Christmas
December 27, 1901 Marlene Dietrich Born
December 30, 1865 Rudyard Kipling born
December 31, New Year's Eve
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