On May 4, 1776, the Rhode Island General Assembly convened at the Old State House on Benefit Street in Providence and did something no American legislature had done before. By unan
On May 5, 1494, a fleet of ships carrying Christopher Columbus and his crew arrived off the north coast of an island the local Taino people called Xaymaca, meaning “land of w
On the afternoon of May 3, 1999, the skies over central Oklahoma turned a color that experienced residents recognized with dread. By the time the day was over, 74 tornadoes had tou
On May 3, 1947, the Constitution of Japan came into force, replacing the Meiji Constitution of 1889 that had governed the country for nearly sixty years. In a single stroke, the ne
At 6:01 in the evening on April 4, 1968, a single bullet fired from the bathroom window of a rooming house on South Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee, struck the Reverend Doctor Ma
On April 4, 1949, in an auditorium near the White House in Washington, D.C., the foreign ministers and ambassadors of twelve nations gathered to sign a document of only fourteen ar
At 12:30 in the morning on April 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison — the ninth President of the United States, war hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe, conqueror of the great Shawnee
On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress of the United States met in Philadelphia and passed a resolution of just thirty-one words that would launch one of the most enduri
On April 4, 1581, Queen Elizabeth I stepped aboard a weather-beaten 120-ton galleon moored at the royal dockyard at Deptford on the River Thames and did something that sent a polit
On the morning of April 3, 1973, a man stood on the sidewalk of Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, directly outside the New York Hilton Hotel, and held a device the size and weight
