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General Gordon’s pleas for reinforcements for the besieged city fell on deaf ears in the British government, and the city’s plight became a symbol of imperial overreach and strategic ...

International Winter Sports Week was an incredible success, and the following year the IOC retroactively designated it as the first Winter ...

Canned beer was an immediate success and the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company saw sales skyrocket. Other brewers soon began to adopt the new packaging, and by the end of the year over 200 million cans of beer had sold in the United ...

Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United ...

Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution gives women in the United States the ‘fundamental’ freedom choice in family matters, including whether or not to have an ...

Nuclear propulsion enabled Nautilus to smash numerous records including those for both submerged speed and distance, and became the first submarine to transit the North Pole in August ...

President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on 2 November ...

The organization now boasts more than 1.2 million members and continues to provide legal support where individual rights and liberties are ...

Following a brief flight, Ely executed a successful landing on USS Pennsylvania in a Curtiss Model D 'Pusher', despite being caught off-guard by the sudden updraft that struck the aircraft as he reached the temporary wooden landing ...

The B-52 bomber was taking part in Operation Chrome Dome when it collided with a KC-135 Stratotanker and broke apart, resulting in the deaths of 8 airmen and dropping 4 thermonuclear bombs onto the Spanish fishing village of ...

Nationwide prohibition began on 17 January the following year, and existed until its repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment in ...

On 15 January, 1892, Naismith published his original list of thirteen rules in the Springfield College school newspaper, The Triangle. According to documents found after his death, these were inspired by a game he played as child called ‘duck on a rock’ and he was nervous about whether the game would catch on since he had previously introduced games that his students did not ...

The Human Be-In was conceived by Visionary artist Michael Bowen as a "Gathering of the Tribes" to unite various counterculture factions, from the emerging hippie movement to activists advocating for social ...

The broadcast included performances of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci featuring acclaimed Italian tenor Enrico ...

Beginning in Sicily, revolutions quickly spread across the continent and by the end of the year a series of uncoordinated uprisings had broken out in dozens of countries including France, Germany, and the Austrian ...

The report drew three main conclusions focused on the effect of smoking on the functioning of the respiratory ...

The 47-page pamphlet is credited with having a dramatic impact on public opinion in the colonies, and helped to consolidate the idea of independent ...

As Star of the West approached Fort Sumter on the morning of 9 January it was met with cannon shots from cadet George E. Haynsworth on nearby Morris ...

The presidential election of 1828 served as the catalyst for the Democratic Party’s formation as Andrew Jackson secured a resounding victory at the forefront of a movement with a clear ...

The bank played a pivotal role in stabilizing the nation’s finances in the early years of new republic, contributing to the establishment of credit that laid the groundwork for a more organized and sophisticated financial ...