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

April 6, 1896. After a brief lull of merely 1500 years, the first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece

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

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