History

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (More info)

1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt (More info)

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1923 – English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen (More info)

1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a US patent for nylon (More info)

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1879 – President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the US Supreme Court (More info)

1903 – Teddy bears, named after President Theodore Roosevelt, first go on sale (More info)

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded (More info)

1929 – Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s gang, are murdered in Chicago in what would come to be known as the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre (More info)

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1914 – The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or ASCAP, is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members (More info)

1920 – The Leag

Thanks to the emergence of the craft beer movement in America over the past 20 years, you probably know your IPAs from your ESAs. Let’s just hope you stayed away from those DUIs.

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, is founded (More info)

1914 – The first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place in Washington, DC (More info)

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1531 – Henry VIII is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England (More info)

1916 – Emma Goldman, a crusader for women’s rights and social justice, is arrested in New York City for lecturing and distributing materials about birth control (More info)

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1763 – The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War, and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain (More info)

1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City (More info)

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1942 – Year-round daylight saving time is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources (More info)

1950 – Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the US Department of State of being filled with Communists (More info)

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1587 – Mary Queen of Scots is executed on suspicion of having been involved in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (More info)

1915 – D.W. Griffith’s controversial film ‘The Birth of a Nation’ premieres in Los Angeles (More info)

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1926 – Carter G. Woodson founds Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month (More info)

1940 – The second full length animated Walt Disney film, ‘Pinocchio,’ premieres (More info)

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