Today:
1415 – Jan Hus, a Czech theologian and reformer, was burned at the stake for heresy in Constance, Germany.
1483 – Richard III was crowned King of England.
1535 – Sir Thomas More was executed for treason in England.
1785 – The dollar was unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tested his rabies vaccine on Joseph Meister, a boy who had been bitten by a rabid dog.
1919 – The British dirigible R34 landed in New York, completing the first airship crossing of the Atlantic.
1933 – The first All-Star baseball game was played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4-2.
1942 – Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the “Secret Annex” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1944 – The Hartford circus fire in Connecticut killed 167 people.
1957 – Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis title, becoming the first African American to win the tournament.
30 American Heritage Events: #6
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
An expedition to explore the newly acquired western territory.