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.

This week in history #26

Last week's photos:
1865 Juneteenth
1782 Great Seal of US
1948 Berlin Airlift
1950 Korean War

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 #26

June 26, ____ - The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco by 50 nations.

June 29, ____ - The US Supreme Court ruled (5-4) that capital punishment was a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibiting "cruel and unusual punishment." Four years later, the Court reversed itself and determined the death penalty was not cruel and unusual punishment in cases involving murder.

June 30, ____ - The 26th Amendment to the US Constitution granted the right to vote in all federal, state and local elections to American citizens 18 years of age or older.

July 1, ____ - President Abraham Lincoln signed the first income tax bill, 3% on annual incomes of $600-$10,000 and 5% on incomes over $10,000. Also on this day, the Bureau of Internal Revenue was established.

This week in history #25

Last week's photos:
1966 Miranda v Arizona
1777 US Flag Day
1951 Univac 1
1812 US war against Great Britain

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 #25

June 19, ____ - In Galveston, Texas, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger read General Order No. 3: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the [President] of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves..." This day is now celebrated as Juneteenth.

June 20, ____ - The US Congress officially adopted the Great Seal of the United States of America.

June 24, ____ - Soviet Russia began a blockade of Berlin. Two days later the Allies responded with the Berlin Airlift, delivering food, coal, and medical supplies to two million isolated West Berliners.

June 25, ____ - The Korean War began as North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel and launched a full scale invasion of South Korea. Three years later, an armistice was signed, formally dividing the country at the 38th parallel into North and South Korea.