This week in history #13

[I am participating in the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge in April. This Week in History will move to Sundays for the month of April.]

Last week's photos:
1995 Tokyo subway incident
1685 Bach born
1934 Philippine independence
1989 Exxon Valdez grounding

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 #13

March 28, ____ - Near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, uranium in the reactor core of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant overheated due to the failure of a cooling valve, threatening a catastrophic nuclear meltdown.

March 30, ____ - President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest following a speech inside a hotel in Washington DC.

March 30, ____ - Vincent Van Gogh was born in Groot Zundert, Holland. He was a Postimpressionist painter, generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt. In 1987, his painting Irises was sold for $53.9 million, the highest price ever paid for a work of art up to that time.

April 2, ____ - Spanish explorer Ponce De Leon sighted Florida and claimed it for Spain. He landed at present day St. Augustine, now the oldest city in the continental US.

This week in history #12

Last week's photos:
1879 Einstein born
44BC Caesar assassinated
1848 Wyatt Earp born
2003 Iraq attack

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 #12

March 20, ____ – A nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system during rush hour resulted in 12 persons killed and 5,000 injured.

March 21, ____ – Organist and composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eissenach, Germany.

March 24, ____ - The Philippine Islands in the South Pacific were granted independence after nearly 50 years of US control.

March 24, ____ - Oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound off Alaska, resulting in 11 million gallons of oil leaking over 45 miles.

This week in history #11

Last week's photos:
1836 Alamo
1862 US paper money
1880 Salvation Army
1609 Bermuda

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 #11

March 14, ____ - Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. His theory of relativity led to new ways of thinking about time, space, matter and energy.

March 15, ____ - Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome by Brutus and fellow conspirators. 

March 19, ____ - Wyatt Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois. He became a legendary a lawman and gunfighter, best known for the shootout at the O.K. Corral.

March 19, ____ - The United States launched an attack against Iraq to remove dictator Saddam Hussein from power.
 

#A-to-Z Blogging Challenge 2023 Theme Reveal!

For the last few years on the A to Z Challenge, I've posted photos of significant events from the previous year and your job was to guess the letter-appropriate word represented by the photos.  This year, it’s significant events from 2022 and also the first three months of 2023.  Your job, as before, is to figure out what the event is. And, to avoid spoiling the answer for the next blog visitor, please comment on something related to the answer without giving the answer.  For example, if the event is "mask mandates" [from the 2021 Challenge], your comment could say something like "I'm still wearing mine" or "I bought several dozen in different colors" without mentioning the mask at all.

To get you started, here’s the teaser for letter A. Remember, it’s an event from 2022 or the first 3 months of 2023. Comment on something related to the answer without giving the exact answer. Let’s play!

Come back on April 1 to learn the answer!

 

This week in history #10

Last week's photos:
1781 Articles of Confederation
1681 King Charles II / Pennsylvania
1789 First Congress
1778 Boston Massacre

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 #10

March 6, ____ - Fort Alamo fell to Mexican troops led by General Santa Anna.

March 10, ____ - The first issue of U.S. government paper money occurred as $5, $10 and $20 bills began circulation.

March 10, ____ - The Salvation Army was founded in the United States. The social service organization was first founded in England by William Booth and operates today in 90 countries.

March 12, ____ - The island of Bermuda was colonized by the British after a ship on its way to Virginia was wrecked on the reefs.