Today is Pi Day and White Day.
Today in 1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
Today in 1964 – A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.
Today in 1994 – Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
Today in 1995 – [...]
Today in 1781 – William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
Today in 1862 – The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
Today in 1969 – Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing [...]
Today in 1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
Today in 1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint-Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
Today in 1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
Celebrating Birthdays today are André Le Nôtre, Clement Studebaker, [...]
Today in 1702 – The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
Today in 1918 – Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
Today in 1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic [...]
Today is the first day of Daylight Savings Time. (At least here in Seattle!)
Today in 1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
Today in 1834 – the French Foreign Legion is founded.
Today in 1959 – The Barbie doll debuts.
Today in 2007 – The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that [...]
Today in 1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
Today in 1917 – Riots and strikes break out in St. Petersburg, Russia, marking the start of the Russian Revolution.
Today in 1939 – J.R.R. Tolkien delivers his seminal talk "On Fairy Stories."
Today in 1999 – The Supreme Court of the United States [...]
Today in 321 – Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
Today in 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465). (And from this the evil know as AT&T is born.)
Today in [...]
Today in 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
Today in 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a 13-day [...]
Today is Learn from Lei Feng Day in China.
Today in 1836 – Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
Today in 1868 – A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
Today in 1940 – Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution [...]
And yet again I get my days confused….
Today in 1791 – The United States Mint is created by the U.S. Congress.
Today in 1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
Today in 1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
Today in 1931 – The United States officially adopts “The Star-Spangled [...]
Today in 1562, over 1,000 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
Today in 1692, Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
Today in 1872, Yellowstone National Park [...]
Today is Leap Day! Leap day a date that occurs only every four years, in years evenly divisible by 4, such as 1988, 1996, 2008 or 2016. McDonalds will celebrate this year by giving away a free McSkillet Burrito with the purchase of a medium or large drink.
Today in 1504, Christopher Columbus uses his [...]
Today in 1784, John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
Today in 1854, the Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin. And mores the pity.
Today in 1885, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with [...]
Today in 1801, Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
Today in 1879, the announcement of the discovery of artificial sweetener saccharin.
Today in 1922, a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States [...]
Today in 1570, Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Today in 1836, Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
Today in 1919, Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
Today in 1971 – The first unit of [...]
Today is Independence Day in Estonia.
Today in 1803 , the Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v. Madison, establishes the principle of judicial review. (Let’s keep in mind that Bush and Cheney are not above the law).
Today in 1868, the first parade to have floats is staged at Mardi Gras in New [...]
Today is Defender of the Fatherland Day in Russia.
Today in 1836, the Siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
Today in 1898, Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J’accuse", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
Today in 1955, marks the first meeting [...]
Today is "World Thinking Day" as celebrated by scouts worldwide.
Today in 1632, Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
Today in 1879, in Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
Today in 1920, in Emeryville, New York, the first dog race track to employ [...]
Today is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. And somewhere in the Interwebs there’s an article about my sister on this topic. She is both a girl and an engineer- here’s an article over at EngineerGirl.com.
Today in 1245, Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, was granted resignation after having confessed to torture and [...]
