Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Today: 1788: Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1864: Union troops begin tunneling toward Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia, in an effort to break the stalemate during the Civil War. 1876: The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand, occurs in southeastern Montana Territory, resulting in […]
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Today: 1314: The Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce over the English army. 1497: John Cabot, an Italian explorer sailing for England, makes the first recorded European sighting of North America since the Vikings, likely landing on the coast of present-day Canada. 1509: Henry VIII […]
Monday, June 23, 2025
Today: 930: The Alþingi, the Icelandic Parliament and the world’s oldest parliament, is established. 1757: Robert Clive defeats the army led by Suraja Dowla at Plassey, gaining control of Bengal. 1868: Christopher Latham Sholes and others are granted a patent for the “Type-Writer,” an early version of the typewriter. 1894: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) […]
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Today: 1611: English explorer Henry Hudson, his teenage son, and seven supporters were set adrift in a small boat in Hudson Bay by mutineers from his crew. They were never seen again. 1633: The Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentric worldview, which stated that the Earth orbits the Sun. He spent the […]
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Today: 1675: Christopher Wren began work on rebuilding St. Paul’s Cathedral in London after the Great Fire. 1788: The United States Constitution officially went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it. 1834: Cyrus McCormick was granted a patent for his mechanical reaper, an invention that revolutionized farming. 1893: The first […]
Friday, June 20, 2025
Today: 1756: A British garrison is imprisoned in the “Black Hole of Calcutta” in India, resulting in many deaths. 1782: The U.S. Congress officially adopts the Great Seal of the United States. 1789: In Versailles, France, the deputies of the Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath, vowing not to disperse until a written constitution […]
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Today: 1846: The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. 1862: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories. 1865: Union […]
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Today: 618 AD: Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China. 1778: During the American Revolutionary War, the British Army evacuates Philadelphia after a nine-month occupation. 1798: President John Adams oversees the passage of the Naturalization Act, the first of the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts. 1812: […]
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Today: In 1673, French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reached the Mississippi River. They were the first Europeans to map and document the northern portion of the river. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought in 1775 during the American Revolutionary War. Although the British won the battle, the American colonists inflicted heavy casualties, […]
Monday, June 16, 2025
Today: 1487: The Battle of Stoke Field, the final major engagement of the Wars of the Roses, was fought in England. 1775: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was established. On the same day, George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. 1858: In his “House Divided” speech in Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, accepting […]