Tag: 1800s
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Anne Sullivan began teaching six-year-old Helen Keller, who lost her hearing and sight after a dreadful illness at the age of 19 months. March 3, 1887.
Image: Helen Keller (left) in 1899 with lifelong companion and teacher Anne Sullivan (right). Photo taken by Alexander Graham Bell at his School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech. (Public Domain). On this day in history, March 3, 1887, Anne Sullivan began teaching six-year-old Helen Keller, who lost her hearing and sight after a…
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Bowery Boys gang leader William “Bill the Butcher” Poole was shot in the chest by a gang from arch-rival John Morrissey’s Irish-American-led political group Tammany Hall. February 25, 1855.
Image: An 1888 engraving of boxer/gang leader William “Bill the Butcher” Pool. (Public Domain) On this day in history, February 25, 1855, Bowery Boys gang leader William “Bill the Butcher” Poole was shot in the chest by a gang from arch-rival John Morrissey’s Irish-American-led political group Tammany Hall. Poole, the local leader of the Know…
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A Mexican force of 6000 soldiers led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began a blockade of the fort at the Alamo. February 23, 1836
Image: The Fall of the Alamo (1903) by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, depicts Davy Crockett wielding his rifle as a club against Mexican troops who have breached the walls of the mission. (Public Domain) On this day in history, February 23, 1836, a Mexican force of 6000 soldiers led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna…
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On this day in history, U.S. Postmaster Frazier B. Baker and his two-year-old daughter Julia Baker were lynched and died at their home in Lake City, South Carolina, after a white mob attack on their home. February 22, 1898.
Image: Lavinia Baker and her five surviving children. A mob of whites had set fire to their house at night and fatally shot and killed her husband, Frazier Baker, and baby girl Julia on February 22, 1898. Left to right: Sarah; Lincoln, Lavinia; Wille; Cora, Rosa. (Public Domain) On this day in history, February 22,…
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Cole and John Younger, Frank, and Jesse James, and Art McCoy pulled off the first peacetime train robbery in Missouri history at the whistle-stop town of Gads Hill. January 31, 1874.
Image: Jesse and Frank James, 1872. (Public Domain) On this day in history, January 31, 1874, Cole and John Younger, Frank, and Jesse James, and Art McCoy pulled off the first peacetime train robbery in Missouri history at the whistle-stop town of Gads Hill. They would manage to steal $12,000. Fresh from a stagecoach holdup…
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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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American President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. January 1, 1863.
Image: First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1864) (Public Domain) On this day in history, January 1, 1863, as the third year of the Civil War approached and the carnage on the battlefield continued, American President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation pronounced “that all persons…
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British Naturalist Charles Darwin Sails From Plymouth, England, Aboard the HMS Beagle on a Five-Year Scientific Expedition of the Southern Atlantic and Pacific. December 27, 1831.
Image: Charles Darwin, late 1830s. (Public Domain) On this day in history, December 27, 1831, British naturalist Charles Darwin sails from Plymouth, England, aboard the HMS Beagle on a five-year scientific expedition of the southern Atlantic and Pacific. By visiting diverse places like the Galapagos Islands and New Zealand, Darwin understood many territories’ fauna, flora,…
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