Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded (More info)
1948 – The Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the US Constitution (More info)
Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:
1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war (More info)
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (More info)
Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:
1836 – The Alamo falls to Mexican forces (More info)
1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that slaves are not US citizens (More info)
Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:
1770 – Five Americans are killed by British troops in an event that would later become known as the Boston Massacre (More info)
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake (More info)
Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:
1801 – The electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is broken by the House of Representatives, which elected Jefferson president (More info)
1820 – The US Senate passes the Missouri Compromise, an attempt to deal with the dangerously divisive issue of extending slavery into the western territories (More i
Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:
1923 – English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen (More info)
1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a US patent for nylon (More info)
Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:
1879 – President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the US Supreme Court (More info)
1903 – Teddy bears, named after President Theodore Roosevelt, first go on sale (More info)
Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:
1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded (More info)
1929 – Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s gang, are murdered in Chicago in what would come to be known as the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre (More info)