Feb 22nd - Lowell HS, SF opens (on it's 1st campus) Feb 25th - 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax Feb 28th - 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic) Mar 1st - 1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, ND Mar 1st - Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment) Mar 3rd - Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC Mar 4th - 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed Mar 4th - Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments Mar 4th - Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo Mar 4th - NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda) Mar 4th - Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president Mar 8th - Federal League organizes with 6 teams Mar 8th - Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes Mar 10th - Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games Mar 10th - William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300 Mar 12th - Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra
On August 3, 1861 the United States Navy’s Ironclad Board placed ads in Northern Newspapers inviting designers to submit their plans for the construction of ironclad warships. In a letter to Abraham Lincoln dated August 29, 1861 John Ericsson offered to build a vessel, “…that within ten weeks after commencing the structure I would engage to be ready to take up position under the Rebel guns at Norfolk…” Ericsson was a Swedish-American inventor that designed the Union Monitor nicknamed “cheese box on a raft.’ The Confederate Merrimack or Merrimac was originally a wooden frigate. Federal troops fled the ship when they evacuated the Naval yard at Portsmouth, Virginia in 1861. Confederate forces raised it, and then covered the ship with iron plates. They renamed the ship Virginia, although I’ll be using Merrimack by which it is better known.
Ryan Keeney 1960’s Timeline: Summary 1960: A civil rights event in which African American students from North Caroline staged a sit in at a whites-only lunch counter in February. Later that year the U-2 incident, pertaining to the Cold War, in which the Soviet Union downed and captured a US spy plane. 1961: JFK was elected president and the Freedom Riders, people who rode buses through the South to challenge segregation, were formed. While this was going on in America, events in the Cold War occurred; the Bay of Pigs, CIA attempts to invade Cuba and is embarrassed, and the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was when East German troops put up a wall to decrease migration from east to west. 1962: A Cold War event known as the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred.
On 8 November 1960, Jack won the presidential election by a mere 118,000 votes (Shmoop 1). On November 22, 1963, after only one day in Dallas, Texas Jack and Jackie Kennedy were ontheir way to the Trade Mart in Dallas when John F. Kennedy abruptly got shot in an open limousine and dies almost
Kennedy Assassination: how the media covered it then and how they cover it now. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. (9) The death of the president sent our country into mourning. Kennedy's brief, but historical presidency gave a sense of hope and few could accept that he was really gone. The following day newspapers devoted nearly all their coverage to the incident.
9/11 Assignment Section One The bombing of the World Trade Center September 11th, 2001 shouldn’t have come as a surprise to the American people and its officials because of previous events leading up to 9/11. One event was when the FBI and Philippine police failed to communicate with one another after in a Philippines hotel the police captured Abdul Sheikh Murad and seized Ramzi Yousef’s laptop that contained plans to bomb major landmarks around the world, including the World Trade Center. In 1993 Ramzi Yousef detonates a truck bomb in the parking lot underneath the World Trade Center and killed six people. Later in 2000 military in Tampa, Florida ran a list of known terrorist and found Muhammad Atta and Al-Shehhi who were at the airport but wasn’t stop because they both had good U.S. Visas.
That afternoon, Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, insists America had nothing to do with the air raids. He soon comes to learn that he has been misled by his own government. April 16: At a funeral ceremony for Cubans killed in the air raids, Fidel Castro rails at the United States and announces, for the first time, that Cuba is a socialist state. That evening, John Kennedy, at his country house in Virginia for the weekend, cancels follow-up air raids on Cuban airfields. At least one CIA official immediately grasps the implications: “The Cuban Brigade was doomed.” April 17: Shortly after midnight, approximately 1,400 Cuban exiles, known as Brigade 2506, begin to land on the coast of southern Cuba, in and around the Bay of Pigs.
Crisis Report: Tehran: The Carter Administration The Iran Hostage Crisis President Carter’s New Year’s 1979 toast to the Shah at a state dinner in Tehran, announcing that he was "an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world”, set the tone of the stance the United States had with the Shah which indicated support. This led to the trigger of The Iran Hostage Crisis that lasted 444 days, in which Carter allowed an ally, the unpopular Shah to flee to the New York to receive medical care for his cancer and escaping the Iranian Revolution. On November 4th 1979 student demonstrators raided the US Embassy in Tehran, capturing 66 Americans, in which 13 women and minority hostages were let go almost immediately and 1 ill man shortly after. The dislike the Iranian people had for the United States began in the 1950’s, whereas the United States became allies with non-communist regimes, regardless of their country’s people support. 1953 marked the US’s decision to become an ally with the Shah, the leader of Iran.
Sunday, December 7th 1941, 5:00 A.m. a Japanese fleet of 6 aircraft carries sit 230 miles north of Hawaii. 350 pilots say their prayers before going out on their mission to bomb Pearl Harbor. Planning this attack took a year and months to practice low altitude torpedo runs and high altitude precision bomb droppings. There goal was to sink the aircraft carriers and if they weren’t there they were going to sink the battleship. The attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:55 A.M., the island wide attack begins.
March 31: King Nangklao Memorial Day in Thailand; Cesar Chavez Day in various U.S. states Woodcut picture of Matthew C. Perry by an unknown artist 627 – Muslim–Quraish Wars: A confederation of tribes began an ultimately unsuccessful siege of Yathrib (now Medina) against Muhammad and his army. 1854 – U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry (Japanese depiction pictured) and the Tokugawa shogunate signed the Convention of Kanagawa, forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade. 1910 – Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type. 1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashed in Chase County, Kansas, US, and killed eight people, including football coach Knute Rockne, stimulating advances in aircraft design and development. 1964 – Brazilian Armed Forces led an overthrow of Brazilian President João Goulart and established a military government that would last for 21 years.