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After a 34-hour barrage by Confederate cannons, Union forces relinquish Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor, thus starting the American Civil War. April 13, 1861
Image: Bombardment of Fort Sumter, a portrait by Currier and Ives On this day in history, April 13, 1861, after a 34-hour barrage by Confederate cannons, Union forces relinquish Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. The first engagement of the war was over, and the only casualty had been a rebel horse. The Union…
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500 Members of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation Lay Dead After the Worst Massacre of Native Americans by the U.S. military in American History. January 29, 1863.
Image: Massacre survivor Chief Sagwitch and spouse Beawoachee, circa 1875. (Public Domain). On this day in history, January 29, 1863, as many as 500 Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation lay dead after the worst massacre of Native Americans by the U.S. military in American history. Most people have never heard of the Bear River…
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“Dapper Dan” Hogan, a St. Paul, Minnesota Bar-Owner and Mob Boss, is Assassinated When an Unknown Assailant Places a Car Bomb Underneath his New Paige Coupe. December 4, 1928.
Image: “Dapper Dan” Hogan (Public Domain) On this day in history, December 4, 1928, “Dapper Dan” Hogan, a St. Paul, Minnesota bar-owner and mob boss, is assassinated when an unknown assailant places a car bomb underneath his new Paige coupe. Doctors labored all day to save his life – wrote the Morning Tribune, “racketeers, police…
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History Daily: August 9
CAPITULATION OF FORT WILLIAM HENRY On August 9, 1757, English Fort William Henry, New York, surrendered to French & Indians troops. Fort William Henry was a British fort at the southern end of Lake George, in the province of New York. The fort’s construction was ordered by Sir William Johnson in September 1755, during the French and Indian War, as a staging ground for…
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Ex-French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte Sets Sail for Exile to the Mid-Atlantic Island of St. Helena on Board HMS Northumberland, Nearly Two Months After his Defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. August 9, 1815.
(Image: Napoleon on Saint Helena, watercolor by Franz Josef Sandmann, c. 1820. Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, ex-French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile from the coast of England to the mid-Atlantic Island of St. Helena on board the British ship HMS Northumberland, nearly two months after his defeat at the Battle of…
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History Daily: August 8
UNITED STATES ONE DOLLAR BILL On August 8, 1786, the United States Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America. Image of the first US one dollar bill (United States Note) issued in 1862 BRIGHAM YOUNG LEADS THE MORMONS On August 8, 1844, Brigham Young is chosen as the head…
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Theodore Roosevelt was Chosen to Run for the Presidency by the Progressive Party, Better Known as the Bull Moose Party. August 7, 1912.
On this day in history, Theodore Roosevelt was chosen to run for the presidency by the Progressive Party, a group of Republicans unsatisfied with the renomination of President William Howard Taft. Better known as the Bull Moose Party, the Progressive Manifesto called for the direct election of U.S. Senators, tariff reduction, woman suffrage, and many…
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History is the exploration of the human past, as explained in written documents left behind by people. The past, with its complex choices and events, participants dead, and history recounted, is what the public understands as the permanent foundation on which historians stand. Whether or not you like history, there’s no rejecting its impact on us. But…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 