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