This week marks the anniversary of 1944’s famous D-Day. In the early hours of June 6th, thousands of Allied troops came from sky and sea
Category: This Week in History
On May 29, 1953, British expedition duo Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary accomplish a feat that had never been done before: they reach the summit
The Great Brooklyn Bridge · Thu, May 24, 1883 – 1 · The Daily Union-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com On May 24, 1883, the famous
This week in 1954, segregation in public schools is declared to be unconstitutional and “inherently unequal” in the final ruling of Brown v. Board of
This week marks the anniversary of the surrender of German troops throughout Europe and the official end of World War II. The majority of surrender
On May 5, 1961, nearly a month after Yuri Gagarin’s orbit around the earth won the space race for the Soviet space program, American Alan
It was this week in 1954 that the first trials of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine began throughout the U.S., Canada, and Finland. Anti-Polio Experiment Starts
On April 19, 1775, the “shot heard round the world” is fired at Lexington, and the uneasy, growing tensions between American colonists and British soldiers
On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant and the American Civil War is officially brought to an
Happy Groundhog Day, one and all! On this day in 1887, the first Groundhog Day was officially celebrated in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Since then this tradition