On This Day in History |
|
|
|
1531 King Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury. |
1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded. |
1867 British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada's constitution for more than 100 years. |
1917 Russian "February Revolution" begins in earnest with protests celebrating International Woman's Day and riots in St Petersburg over food rations and conduct of the war [OS=Feb 23]. |
1948 US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional. |
1973 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London. Ten members of PIRA are later arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country. |
 | Post-it notes written by well-wishers in Malaysia after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing |
|
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Also Bill the Butcher, Millard Fillmore and Joe DiMaggio. |
|
|
|
|
Sinatra does it his way and secures a ringside seat as a photographer for the "Fight of the Century" between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment