Tag: American History
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Werner Klemperer
Image: Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink in the 1960s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. Werner Klemperer was born on 22 March 1920 in Cologne, Germany. His father, Otto Klemperer, was a prominent conductor and composer while his mother was soprano Johanna Geisler. His father was a Jew who had converted to Catholicism and his mother a Lutheran…
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History Daily: September 1
September 1, 1532: Anne Boleyn Becomes Marquess Image: Anne Boleyn (Wikimedia Commons). Lady Anne Boleyn is made marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII. September 1, 1862 – The Battle of Chantilly Image: Death of General Isaac Stevens (1818-62) during the attack on Chantilly, Virginia 1862 (Wikimedia Commons.) During the American Civil War,…
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Samuel Mason, a Patriot Captain in Command of Fort Henry on the Ohio Frontier, Survives a Devastating Native American Attack on the Fort.
Image: While on the Ohio River and later the Mississippi, Samuel Mason and his gang of river pirates chose flatboats, keelboats, and rafts as profitable targets to attack because of the valuable and plentiful cargo on board. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, August 31, 1777, Samuel Mason, a Patriot captain in command of…
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History Daily: August 29
WOMEN JOIN BRITISH WAR EFFORT On August 29, 1914, with World War I approaching the end of its first month, the Women’s Defense Relief Corps was formed in Britain. Though women’s rights organizations in Britain had initially opposed the country’s entry into World War I, they soon reversed their position, recognizing the potential of the…
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Ishi, the Last Surviving Member of the Native American Yahi Tribe, is Discovered Near Oroville, California. August 29, 1911.
Image: Ishi portrait. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, Ishi, who was described as the last surviving member of the Native American Yahi tribe, is discovered near Oroville, California. History Daily: 365 Fascinating Happenings Volume 1 & Volume 2 – August 29, 1911 By the early 20th century, Anglo-Americans had overwhelmed the North American…
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An Exhausted and Demoralized Sauk Leader, Black Hawk, Surrenders After Defeat in the Black Hawk War. August 27, 1832.
Image: Black Hawk, the Sauk war chief and namesake of the Black Hawk War in 1832. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, after capitulating to the Americans at the end of the Black Hawk War, an exhausted and demoralized Sauk leader, Black Hawk, surrendered to Indian agent Joseph Street at Fort Crawford (present-day Prairie…
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Italian-Born Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are Executed for Murder in Boston, Massachusetts. August 23, 1927.
Image: Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left), handcuffed to Nicola Sacco (right). Dedham, Massachusetts Superior Court, 1923.This photo was taken in 1923 when Sacco was on the 23rd day of a hunger strike. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, despite worldwide protests in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for…
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History Daily: August 19
OUTLAW JOHN WESLEY HARDIN IS MURDERED IN TEXAS Image: John Wesley Hardin’s post mortem photo. (Wikimedia Commons.) On August 19, 1895, John Wesley Hardin, one of the most vicious and prolific killers in the American Old West, is murdered by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. Born in Texas on May…
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African American mathematician and astronomer Benjamin Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson criticizes his hypocritical stance on slavery. August 19, 1791.
Image: Benjamin Banneker On this day in history, the accomplished American mathematician and astronomer Benjamin Banneker wrote a letter to then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson communicates prolifically with luminaries from around the world. Still, Banneker is unique among them: the son of a free Black American woman and a formerly enslaved African man from…
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History Daily: August 18
ROANOKE COLONY ABANDONED Image: 19th-century illustration depicting the discovery of the abandoned colony, 1590. (Wikimedia Commons.) On August 18, 1590, John White, the governor of the Roanoke Island colony in present-day North Carolina, returns from a trip to England to find the settlement abandoned. White found no evidence of the whereabouts of the 100 colonists…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 