At precisely 7:30 in the morning on July 1, 1916, along a fifteen-mile front of chalky farmland in the Picardy region of northern France, whistles rang out and an estimated 120,000
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
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
