This week in history #9

Last week's photos:
1956 bus boycott
1942 submarine attack
1582 Gregorian calendar
1848 Communist Manifesto

Last year we looked at obscure holidays. This year, let’s look at major world events that occurred each week.  Make your best guess in the comments as to the years of each event.  No googling!

Week #9

March 1, ____ - Formal ratification of the Articles of Confederation was announced by Congress.  The Articles remained in effect through the Revolutionary War until the current US Constitution.

March 4, ____ - King Charles II of England granted land in the New World to William Penn to settle an outstanding debt. The area became Pennsylvania.

March 4, ____ - The first meeting of Congress under the new US Constitution took place in New York City.

Manhattan 2016

March 5, ____ - The Boston Massacre occurred as a group of rowdy Americans harassed British soldiers who then opened fire, killing five and injuring six.

This week in history #8

Last week's photos:
1635 Boston Latin School
1933 FDR attempted assassination
1564 Galileo born
1473 Copernicus born

Last year we looked at obscure holidays. This year, let’s look at major world events that occurred each week.  Make your best guess in the comments as to the years of each event.  No googling!

Week #8

February 22, ____ - In Montgomery, Alabama, 80 participants in the three-month-old bus boycott were arrested, including Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. Later that same year, the US Supreme Court mandated desegregation of the buses.

February 23, ____ - During World War II, the first attack on the US mainland occurred when a Japanese submarine shelled an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California.

February 24, ____ - Pope Gregory XIII corrected mistakes on the Julian calendar. The new Gregorian calendar was then adopted by Catholic countries, followed by Protestant and other nations.

February 26, ____ - The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

This week in history #7

Last week's photos:
1812 Charles Dickens born
1910 Boy Scouts founded in US
1929 Vatican City
1990 Nelson Mandela

Last year we looked at obscure holidays. This year, let’s look at major world events that occurred each week.  Make your best guess in the comments as to the years of each event.  No googling!

Week #7

February 13, ____ - Boston Latin School, the first public school in America was established in Boston, Massachusetts.

February 15, ____ - An assassination attempt on US President Franklin D. Roosevelt occurred in Miami, Florida.

February 15, ____ - Astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy. He was the first astronomer to use a telescope.

February 19, ____ - Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland. He is considered the founder of modern astronomy, and believed that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system.

This week in history #6

Last week's photos:
2003 Columbia
1870 15th Amendment
1913 16th Amendment
1985 UN Convention Against Torture

Last year we looked at obscure holidays. This year, let’s look at major world events that occurred each week.  Make your best guess in the comments as to the years of each event.  No googling!

For week #6

February 7, ____ - British novelist Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.

February 8, ____ - The Boy Scouts of America, modeled after the British Boy Scouts, was founded in Washington DC.

February 11, ____ - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini granted political independence to Vatican City, an area of about 110 acres, with the Pope as sovereign.

February 11, ____ - In South Africa, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after serving 27 years of a life sentence. He later became president of South Africa.