Last week's photos:
1929 South Pole
1640 Portugal
1918 Iceland
1955 Rosa Parks
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 #49
December 6, ____ - The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, abolishing slavery in the US.
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Last week's photos:
1963 Kennedy
1859 Darwin
1992 Czech & Slovak
1789 Thanksgiving
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 #48
November 29, ____ - American explorers Richard Byrd and Bernt Balchen completed the first airplane flight to the South Pole.
Last week's photos:
1927 Holland Tunnel
1994 Channel Tunnel
1869 Suez Canal
1863 Gettysburg Address
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 #47
November 22, ____ - In downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was shot in the back and head.
Last week's photos:
1885 Canada Railway
1895 X-Rays
1965 Northeast Blackout
1989 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 #46
November 13, ____ - The Holland Tunnel was opened to traffic. The tunnel runs under the Hudson River between New York City and Jersey City.
Last week's photos:
1938 War of the Worlds
1517 Martin Luther
1776 Mission San Juan Capistrano
1957 Sputnik II
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 #45
November 7, ____ - Canada's first transcontinental railway was completed.
November 8, ____ - X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen in Germany.
November 9, ____ - At 5:16 p.m., the Great Blackout of the Northeast began. A tripped circuit breaker caused a chain reaction knocking out interconnected power companies down the East Coast, affecting more than 30 million persons.
November 9, ____ - The Berlin Wall was opened after 28 years.
Last week's photos:
1945 United Nations
1825 Erie Canal
1636 Harvard University
1929 Stock Market Crash
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 #44
October 30, ____ - The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, depicting a Martian invasion of New Jersey, panicked millions of Americans who thought it was real.
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Last week's photos:
1701 Yale University
1987 Black Monday
1818 US-Canadian Border
1879 Incandescent Lamp
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 #43
October 24, ____ - The United Nations was founded.
October 26, ____ - The Erie Canal opened as the first major man-made waterway in America. It cost over $7 million and took eight years to complete.
