This week in history #22

Last week's photos:
1844 First telegraph message
1787 Constitutional Convention
1937 Opening of Golden Gate Bridge
1961 Amnesty International began

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 #22

May 29, ____ - The English monarchy was restored after several years of a Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell.

May 30, ____ - The Pennsylvania Evening Post became the first daily newspaper published in America.

May 31, ____ - Over 2,300 persons were killed in the Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania, after heavy rains caused the Connemaugh River Dam to burst, sending a wall of water 75 feet high through the city.

June 4, ____ - The Chinese government ordered troops to fire on unarmed protesters in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

This week in history #21

Last week's photos:
1792 New York Stock Exchange
1875 Kentucky Derby
1954 Brown v Board of Education
1980 Mount St. Helens eruption

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 #21

May 24, ____ - Samuel Morse sent the first official telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?" from the Capitol building in Washington DC to Baltimore.

May 25, ____ - The Constitutional Convention began in Philadelphia.

May 27, ____ - In San Francisco, 200,000 people walked across the Golden Gate Bridge to celebrate its grand opening.

May 28, ____ - Amnesty International, currently with more than a million members in 150 countries, was founded to free prisoners of conscience, stop torture and the death penalty, and guarantee human rights for women.

This week in history #20

Last week's photos:
1869 Promontory Point
1994 Mandela
1981 Pope John Paul II
1796 Smallpox Vaccine

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 #20

May 17, ____ - Two dozen merchants and brokers established the New York Stock Exchange.

May 17, ____ - The first Kentucky Derby horse race took place at Churchill Downs in Louisville KY.

May 17, ____ - In Brown v. Board of Education, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation of public schools solely on the basis of race denied black children equal educational opportunity. "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

May 18, ____ - Mount St. Helens volcano erupted in Washington State.

This week in history #19

Last week's photos:
1707 Great Britain formed
2011 Osama bin Laden killed
1970 Kent State University protest
1937 Hindenburg explosion

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 #19

May 10, ____ - The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railways were joined by a golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah.

May 10, ____ - Former political prisoner Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of South Africa.

May 13, ____ - Pope John Paul II was shot twice at close range in St. Peter's Square in Rome.

May 14, ____ - Smallpox vaccine was developed by Dr. Edward Jenner.

This week in history #18

Last week's photos:
1800 Library of Congress
1986 Chernobyl
1789 Mutiny on the Bounty
1945 Mussolini shot

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 #18

May 1, ____ - Great Britain was formed from a union between England and Scotland. Wales had already been part of England since the 1500's. The United Kingdom today consists of Great Britain [England, Scotland, and Wales] and Northern Ireland.

May 2, ____ - US Special Operations Forces killed Osama bin Laden during a raid on his secret compound in Pakistan.

May 4, ____ - At Kent State University, National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting President Richard Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia, killing four students. This resulted in the temporary closing of over 450 colleges and universities.

May 6, ____ - The German airship Hindenburg burst into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, following a trans-Atlantic voyage.

#AtoZChallenge Reflections 2023

Time flew by in April and, as usual, I didn’t get to visit as many blogs as I would have liked. I wonder why the month of April always ends up being so much busier than other months?

I love doing the theme of current events from the previous year. It’s a reminder to me of everything that’s been happening in the world. I hope you all enjoy it too.

In addition to this blog, I interviewed 6 authors on the Operation Awesome blog for the “Established Authors” theme:

Donna Everhart
https://operationawesome6.blogspot.com/2023/04/atozchallenge-e-is-for-donna-everhart.html

Janice Hardy
https://operationawesome6.blogspot.com/2023/04/atozchallenge-h-is-for-janice-hardy.html

Laura Stegman
https://operationawesome6.blogspot.com/2023/04/atozchallenge-l-is-for-laura-stegman.html

Victoria Strauss
https://operationawesome6.blogspot.com/2023/04/atozchallenge-s-is-for-victoria-strauss.html

Kari Veenstra
https://operationawesome6.blogspot.com/2023/04/atozchallenge-v-is-for-kari-veenstra.html

K.M. Weiland
https://operationawesome6.blogspot.com/2023/04/atozchallenge-w-is-for-km-weiland.html

I hope you all had a great April. See you next year!

["This week in history" will post tomorrow, and then resume on Mondays for the rest of the year.]