This Day in History

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers (More info) 1948 – In the greatest upset in presidential election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats his Republican challenger, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey (More info) Read Mo

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo’s finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1864 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th state in the US (More info) 1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that develop after his appendix ruptures (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1534 – The English parliament passes the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church (More info) 1922 – Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of ’29 or “Black Tuesday,” ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty (More info) 1919 – The US Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1787 – The first of the Federalist Papers, which called for the ratification of the US Constitution, is published (More info) 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1854 – The Charge of the Light Brigade takes place at Balaklava during the Crimean War (More info) 1944 – The Japanese deploy kamikaze suicide bombers against American warships for the first time (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (More info) 1929 – “Black Thursday” stock market crash occurs on the New York Stock Exchange (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the second battle of Philippi (More info) 1850 – The first National Women’s Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1934 – Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd is shot by FBI agents in a cornfield in East Liverpool, Ohio (More info) 1957 – The United States suffers its first casualties in Vietnam (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1861 – Union troops suffer a devastating defeat in the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, the second major engagement of the Civil War (More info) 1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south (More info)