This week in history #39

Last week's photos:
1810 Chile Independence
1947 US Air Force
1893 New Zealand Voting
1957 Integration

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 #39

September 29, ____ - Congress created the United States Army.

September 29, ____ - Britain's "bobbies", later known as Scotland Yard, made their first public appearance.

October 1, ____ - Henry Ford's Model T went on sale for the first time.

October 1, ____ - The People's Republic of China was founded with Mao Zedong as Chairman.

This week in history #38

Last week's photos:
2001 US Terrorist Attack
1990 Re-Unified Germany
1741 Handel's Messiah
1908 GM Founded

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 #38

September 18, ____ - Chile declared its independence from Spain.

September 18, ____ - The US Air Force was established.

September 19, ____ - New Zealand became the first country to grant women the right to vote.

September 24, ____ - US President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard to enforce racial integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.

This week in history #37

Last week's photos:
1609 Manhattan
1781 Los Angeles
1822 Brazil
1900 Galveston Hurricane

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 #37

September 11, ____ - The worst terrorist attack in US history occurred when four large passenger jets were hijacked then crashed, killing nearly 3,000 persons.

September 12, ____ - A treaty was signed by East and West Germany restoring a re-unified Germany.

September 14, ____ - Composer George Frederick Handel finished Messiah after working on it nonstop for 23 days.

September 16, ____ - General Motors was founded by entrepreneur William Crapo "Billy" Durant in Flint, Michigan.

This week in history #36

Last week's photos:
1963 March on Washington
1997 Princess Diana
1666 Great Fire of London
1752 Gregorian Calendar

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 #36

September 4, ____ - Henry Hudson discovered the island of Manhattan.

September 4, ____ - Los Angeles was founded, with the original name El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles (The Town of the Queen of the Angels).

September 7, ____ - Brazil declared its independence from Portugal after 322 years as a colony.

September 8, ____ - A hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing over 8000 persons and destroying over 2500 buildings, making it the worst natural disaster in US history.

This week in history #35

Last week's photos:
1959 Hawaii
1986 Lake Nios
79 Vesuvius
1883 Krakatoa

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 #35

August 28, ____ - More than 250,000 persons attended The March on Washington, a Civil Rights rally in Washington, DC at which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his I Have a Dream speech.

August 31, ____ - Britain's Princess Diana died at age 36 after a high-speed car crash.

September 2, ____ - The Great Fire of London began in a bakery near the Tower, destroying more than 13,000 houses but claiming only six lives.

September 2, ____ - The British ended their use of the Julian calendar, switching to the Gregorian calendar. Wednesday, September 2, was followed by Thursday, September 14, resulting in rioting by people who demanded the missing eleven days back.

"Give us our 11 days!"

This week in history #34

Last week's photos:
1935 Social Security
1969 Woodstock
1896 Klondike Gold Rush
1920 19th Amendment

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 #34

August 21, ____ - Hawaii became the 50th US state.

August 22, ____ - Deadly fumes from a volcanic eruption under Lake Nios in Cameroon killed more than 1500 people.

August 24, ____ - Mount Vesuvius, in southern Italy, erupted and destroyed the cities of Pompeii, Stabiae, and Herculaneum.

August 26, ____ - On an Indonesian island, volcano Krakatoa [locally Krakatau] erupted, sending lava, ash, and steam to a height of 50 miles. Explosions were heard 2000 miles away. Tidal waves 120 feet high killed 36,000 people.

[Yes this must be volcano week!]

This week in history #33

 This week in history #33

Last week's photos:
1990 Desert Shield
1974 Nixon Resigned
1965 Watts Riots
1961 Berlin Wall

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 #33

August 14, ____ - President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, establishing guaranteed pensions to those who retire at age 65.

August 15, ____ - Woodstock began in a field near Bethel, New York. The 3-day concert featured 24 rock bands and drew a crowd of more than 300,000 people. 

August 16, ____ - Gold was discovered in a tributary of the Klondike River in Alaska, resulting in the Great Klondike Gold Rush.

August 18, ____ - The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote.

This week in history #32

Last week's photos:
1790 US Patent Office
1492 Columbus
1961 Obama
1945 Atomic Bomb

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 #32

August 7, ____ - President George Bush ordered Operation Desert Shield to prevent further Iraqi advances.

August 9, ____ - Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal.

August 11, ____ - Six days of riots began in the Watts area of Los Angeles, resulting in 34 deaths, $40 million in property damage, and more than 3,000 arrests.

August 13, ____ - The Berlin Wall was established after the East German government closed the border between east and west sectors of Berlin with barbed wire. 

This week in history #31

Last week's photos:
1909 Overseas flight
1956 Andrea Doria
1953 Korean War end
1975 Jimmy Hoffa

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 #31

July 31, ____ - The US Patent Office first opened its doors.

August 3, ____ - Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain with three ships, Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. He sought a westerly route to the Far East and landed on October 12th in the Bahamas, thinking it was an outlying Japanese island.

August 4, ____ - Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.

August 6, ____ - The first Atomic Bomb was dropped over the center of Hiroshima at 8:15 am by the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay. 

Last week's photos:
1954 Vietnam
1969 Apollo 11
1898 Guam
1952 Egypt

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 #30

July 25, ____ - In the first international overseas airplane flight, a small monoplane took off from France and landed in England near Dover.

July 25, ____ - The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm. Nearby ships rescued 1,634 people, including the captain and the crew.

July 27, ____ - The Korean War ended with the signing of an armistice at Panmunjom.

July 30, ____ - Former Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa was last seen outside a restaurant near Detroit, Michigan.

This week in history #29

Last week's photos:
1973 Bahamas
1991 Yeltsin
1789 Bastille
1999 JFK Jr

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 #29

July 20, ____ - An agreement in Geneva Switzerland ended hostilities between French forces in Vietnam and the People's Army of Vietnam.

July 20, ____ - Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon.

July 21, ____ - Spain ceded Guam to the United States.

July 23, ____ - A revolution changed Egypt from a monarchy to a republic.

This week in history #28

Last week's photos:
1976 Entebbe
1885 Rabies vaccine
1868 14th amendment
1898 Hawaii annex

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 #28

July 10, ____ - The Bahamas gained independence after 250 years as a British Crown Colony.

July 10, ____ - Boris Yeltsin became the first popularly elected president in Russia's history.

July 14, ____ - The fall of the Bastille occurred.

July 16, ____ - A small plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr., with his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren as passengers, disappeared off radar. Five days later, the bodies were recovered from the plane wreckage in 116 feet of water.

This week in history #27

Last week's photos:
1945 UN Charter
1972 Capital Punishment
1971 26th Amendment
1862 IRS Established

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 #27

July 3, ____ - The raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda occurred when Israel rescued 103 hostages on a hijacked Air France airliner.

July 6, ____ - Louis Pasteur gave the first successful anti-rabies vaccine.

July 9, ____ - The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. It defined US citizenship and applied due process and equal protection to the States.

July 7, ____ - President William McKinley signed a resolution annexing Hawaii, which thereafter became a state in 1959.