Catholic dissident Guy Fawkes and 12 co-conspirators spent months planning to blow up King James I of England during the opening of Parliament On This Day, November 5, 1605. But their assassination attempt was foiled […]
On this day, November 4th, in 1979, hundreds of Iranian students storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. leading to The Iranian Hostage Crisis. The students, supporters of the conservative […]
On This Day, Nov. 15th, After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress, sitting in its temporary capital of York, Pennsylvania, agrees to adopt the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union on this day in […]
On This Day, November 3rd, 1979, Five members of the Communists Workers Party, participating in a “Death to the Klan” rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, are shot to death by a group of Klansmen and […]
On this day, November 2nd, in 1777, the USS Ranger, with a crew of 140 men under the command of John Paul Jones, leaves Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for the naval port at Brest, France, where it […]
On this day in 1775, Continental Army Brigadier General Richard Montgomery takes Montreal, Canada, without opposition. Montgomery’s victory owed its success in part to Ethan Allen’s disorganized defeat at the hand of British General and […]
On This Day, November 1st, in 1765 – In the face of widespread opposition in the American colonies, Parliament enacts the Stamp Act, a taxation measure designed to raise revenue for British military operations in […]
On this day, October 31st, in 1776, in his first speech before British Parliament on since the leaders of the American independence Revolution came together to sign of the Declaration of Independence that summer, King […]
On this day, October 30th, in 1775, the Continental Congress appoints seven members to serve on an administrative naval committee tasked with the acquisition, outfitting and manning of a naval fleet to be used in […]
John Hancock resigns his position as president of the Continental Congress, due to a prolonged illness, on this day, October 29th, in 1777. Hancock was the first member of the Continental Congress to sign the […]
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