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
On April 3, 1948, President Harry S. Truman sat down at his desk in the White House and signed into law the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948 — the legislation that would be known
At 8:44 in the evening on April 3, 1936, two thousand volts of electricity surged through Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the execution chamber of the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton
On the morning of April 3, 1882, in a rented house at 1318 Lafayette Street in St. Joseph, Missouri, Jesse Woodson James — the most wanted outlaw in America, the man whose name h
On the evening of April 3, 1860, a cannon boomed in the streets of St. Joseph, Missouri, and a young rider — his identity still disputed by historians a century and a half later
On Easter Sunday, April 3, 1043, a man who had spent most of his life as an exile in Normandy was crowned King of England at Winchester Cathedral in a ceremony of deep religious an
On June 2, 1953, a twenty-seven-year-old woman was driven through the streets of London in a gilded coach drawn by eight grey gelding horses while three million people stood in the
On April 10, 1871, in Brooklyn, New York, a sixty-one-year-old showman who had already lived several remarkable careers in a single lifetime launched what would become the most fam
