This Day In History

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean with three ships, becoming the first European to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific (More info) 1895 – Frank Duryea wins the first motor-car race in the United States (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco (More info) 1936 – The first issue of the pictorial magazine Life is published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck Dam by Margaret Bourke-White (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1718 – Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, is killed off the coast of North Carolina (More info) 1943 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt to discuss ways to defeat Japan (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1920 – In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as “Bloody Sunday” (More info) 1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory collectively enter the United States as Oklahoma, the 46th state (More info) 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1777 – After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation (More info) 1867 – The first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1882 – Billy the Kid is killed in a shootout in Tombstone, Arizona (More info) 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly — aka Elizabeth Cochrane — begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days, completing the trip in 72 day (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod (More info) 1831 – Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded (More info) 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts (More info) 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first sitting US President to make an official trip outside the country, traveling to inspect progress on the Panama Canal (More info) 1965 – A switch at a station near Niagara Falls fails, plun

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1793 – After more than two centuries as a royal palace, the Louvre is opened as a public museum in Paris by the French revolutionary government (More info) 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, German scientist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia (More info) 1916 – Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the United States Congress (More info)