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Oct 9, 1000
Leif Ericson discovered the land of North America.
Leif Ericson discovered the land of North America before Christopher Columbus. Leif Ericson was a Viking explorer. The Vikings left the land because of Indian attacks and never returned. -
Sep 20, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan left from the country of Spain with five ships.
Threee years after leaving one of the ships returned it was the first ship to sail around the world. Magellan didn't set out to sail around the world he was trying to find a short sea route to the Indies.The journey lasted longer then they thought and his crew ran our of food and fresh water having to survive off of rats and sawdust. Magellan was killed in the battle him and his crew were in between two groups of Filipinos. 18 out of 214 made it back to Spain. -
Nov 17, 1558
Queen Elizabeth the first became Queen of England.
Queen Elizabeth the first was the daughter of King Henry the eighth. She was well educated and could play musical instruments. While she was in reign the English navy became one of the best in the world and defeated the Spanish fleet. -
Sit Walter Raleigh was sentenced to death.
Sir Walter Raleigh was a soilder, an explorer, a writer and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth 1 of England. He placed his coat over a puddle so that the Queen wouldn't get covered with mud. Sir Walter Raleigh was sentenced to death for killing Spaniards. -
Benjamin Banneker was born.
Benjamin Banneker was a famous writer, astronomer, craftsman, mathematican and surveyor. He recalled the memory for the plans of a French architect for Washington, D.C. -
John Adams, the second President of the United States was born.
John Adams was the first Vice President of the United States and the first President to live in the White House. -
Robert Fulton was born.
He created a steamboat many people didn't think it would work and called it Fulton's Folly, The steamboat was called Clermont. He also created a submarine called Nautilus. -
George Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capitol building.
The Capitol building is an important government building and is a symbol of the United States of America. The U.S. Congress meets in the Capitol building and is located on Capitol Hill near the center of Washington D.C. In 1812 British troops set fire to the capitol building, the 4th presidents wife Dolley Madison saved important papers and a picture of George Washington from the building. Many famous Americans have has funerals in the Capitol building like Abraham Lincoln and John F, Kennedy. -
Zebulon Pike discovered a mountain peak in what is now Colorado.
Zebulon Pike was a lieutenant in the United States. The mountain peak he discovered is in the mountain range of the Rocky Mountains. -
Napoleon, the Emperor of France, started his retreat from Russia.
Napoleon led 600,000 men in Russia to conquer it but had to retreat because of the lack of food shelter and the severe winter weather. -
Oliver Perry defeated the British navy.
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Tecumseh a great leader of the Shawnee Indians died in battle.
Tecumseh and his warriors faught along with the Britsih in the war against Great Britain ans the United States. On the same date 64 years later a leader of the Nez Perce died his name was Chief Joseph. -
Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner.
The song was originally a poem written about a battle between the British and the English. -
The Star Spangled Banner was written.
Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner on the back of an envelope. It was originally a poem that Key wrote at The Defense of Fort McHenry. -
Nathaniel Palmer became the first explorer to see Antartica.
He was looking for new seal hunting grounded and found the Antartica Peninsula. It was proven to be a continent when Charles Wilkes sailed along the coast. -
Sam Houston became the first President of the Republic of Texas.
Americans went to war with Mexico to win the inependence of Texas. Sam Houston was elected President for two years and when he served a second term he got Texas to become the 28th state. -
Robert Louis Stevenson was born.
He created the stories, Treasure Island, The Strange Case of De. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped. -
Walter Reed an army officer who proved that mosquitoes carried the disease yellow fever was born.
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John Brown, an abolitionist, captured a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
John Brown said the purpose of the raid was to free all the blacks in the state. He believed slavery was wrong. -
Jane Addams the first woman to open a settlement home in America was born.
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John Pershing an officer given the highest rank of any American army officer was born.
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James Naismith, who invented basketball, was born.
Basketball was invented when the head of the YMCA Training School asked Naismith to invent a sport that could be played indoors during the winter. -
William Sydney Porter a famous author who wrote most of his stories in prison was born.
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President Abramham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address speech.
The speech was given at the site of The Battle of Gettysburg and was about two minutes long. The battle was between the North and South and lasted about four years. -
A band of southern soilders rode into a small town of Vermont.
The small band robbed three banks. More then half of the men were arrested with some of the banks money with them but they couldn't remember where the rest of the money went and it hasn't been found since. -
Kenesaw Mountain Landis was born.
He was the first comissioner of baseball. He became commissioner after the Black Sox Scandal. -
A cargo ship left New York Harbor with ten people aboard.
The cargo ship was called The Mary Celeste. It was going to Italy to deliver it's cargo. On December 4, the captain of another ship spotted the ship his crew boarded the ship when they returned there was no one on the ship. -
James Garfield the 20th president of the United States died.
James Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881 in Washington D.C. at a train station. He was shot in the back and doctors couldn't find the bullet so they called Alexander Graham Bell to use his metal detector to find the bullet but since the bed was filled with springs it interfered with the device so they couldn't find the bullet. An infection spread throughout his body and caused his death. -
Pablo Picasso was born in Spain.
Pablo Picasso developed a new style of painting called cubism. He used newspapers and shapes. -
A famous gunfight took place in Tombstone, Arizona.
The gunfight is known as the Gunfight at the OK Corral. The gunfight was between the Earp brothers, their friend Doc Holliday, and a band of outlaws. -
Jesee James the famous outlaw was shot at his home.
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Eleanor Roosevelt was born.
Eleanor Roosevelt was the niece of Teddy Roosevelt and married her cousin Franklin Roosevelt who was the 32nd Presisent of the United States. When Franklin Roosevelt became ill Eleanor Roosevelt became his leg and traveled all over the world for him. -
George Eastman received a patent for the first roll-film camera called the Kodak.
George Eastman received a patent for the first roll-film camera called the Kodak. -
Montana became the 41st state.
Two battles took place in Montana. One of them was the Nez Perce Indians who were chased by the American army and they surrendered. Another one was the battle of Little Bighorn. -
John L. Sullivan boxed in the first championship fight using the Queensbury rules was born.
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The first American-made, gasoline-powered automobile was taken on a test drive.
The test drive went down Spruce Street in Springfield, Massachusetts.After 25 feet the machine stalled, the driver, Frank Duryea, restarted it and it traveled 200 feet. Frank Duryea and his brother Charles made the first successful American-made, gasoline-powered automobile. The automobiles were so new that they were shown in circuses in the United States. -
Oklahoma became the 46th state.
Oklahoma was once known as Indian Territory. The U.S. forced Indians to move there they did a long march from the Southeast to Oklahoma which became known as the Trail of Tears. -
The first death caused by an airplane crashed occured.
Thomas Selfridge, a lieutenant, was the victim of the first death caused by an airplane at Fort Myer, Virginia. The airplane was an invention by two brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright. -
Calbraith Rodgers became the first person to fly across the United States.
On September 17, 1911 Rodgers started his journey from Sheepshead Bay, New York. He was given 25 days to finish the 3,000-mile trip. He had many problems along the way, but he finished the journey within 49 days. -
Jesse Owens the fastest man alive and who won medals for the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, long jump and 400-meter relay team races was born.
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President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button in his office and caused an explosions 4,000 miles away.
The blast helped clear a mass of earth and rock so workers in Panama could continue building the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal let ships travel between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. In 1999 Panama gained control of the canal. -
Alvin York single-handedly captured an entire battalion of German soilders.
Alvin York was a corporal when he captured the German soilders but became famous as Sergeant York. He captured a German officer and his 90 men and forced them to tell other German soilders to surrender. -
Eight Chicago White Sox members of the baseball team admitted to throwing the 1919 World Series.
The World Series was played by the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds. The eight members took money from gamblers to lose against the Reds. The players were banned from baseball forever. -
James Earl Carter was born in Plains, Georgia.
James Earl Carter was the 39th president of the United States. He served from 1977 to 1981. He was the senate of Georgia, and later became the gorvernor of Georgia. -
A great magician Harry Houdini died.
Harry Hodini was considered as one of the greatest escape artists of all time. Harry Hodini died from an infection after being punch in the stomach. -
Jim Henson was born in Greenville, Mississippi.
Jim Henson was the creator of The Muppets and the puppets for Sesame Street. He was also the voice of Ernie. -
The United Nations was started with the hope that when nations talk to each other, there will be less chance of war.
The United Nations' headquarters is located in New York City. UNICEF is part of the United Nations which helps children by giving them blankets, clothing, food and medicine. -
Charlie Brown was created by Charles Schulz.
Charlie Brown is the leading character of a comic called Peanuts. A lot of things that Charlie Brown goes through in the stories are things that Charles Schulz went through as a child. -
Russians sent into space a mad-made satellite named Sputnik 1.
The word sputnik is russian for traveler. It circled the earth once every 95 minutes at the speed of 18,000 miles per hour. -
The earth shook under a small mining town in Canada.
When the earth shook 24 miners were killed. There were 69 men still trapped and after 6 days 12 men were found and rescued and days later 7 more men were found alive. -
The first presidential election debate was on major television networks.
President Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy had the first presidential election debate on televison in Chicago. Nixon lost the presidential election because the people who were unsure chose Kennedy because Nixon looked ill. -
The Warren Commission report was released to the people.
The Warren Commission was set up by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It was set up to look into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. -
The National Cowboy Hall of Fame was opened in Oklahome City.
The museum honors Americans who helped develope the American West. Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers, Charles Russell, Jake McClure, and Charles Goodnight were the first cowboys elected to the Cowboys Hall of Fame. -
Woody Guthrie a great song writer died.
Woody Guthrie was a folk singer and song writer. He sang in hotels, churches, slaoons, and nightclubs. He wrote a song called Union Maid that was about the problems workers faced as they tried to form a labor union. -
Jefferson Davis became a citizen of the United States.
After 90 years of Jefferson Davis's death he became a citizen of the United States. He lost his citizenship when he gave up his seat as a United States Senator to become the President of the Confederacy. -
Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Sanda Day O'Connor was born on March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas. She earned a law degree from Standford University. The Supreme Court is the guardian of the United States Constitution. She was nominated by President Ronald Reagan and accepted by the Senate. -
The 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus was celebrated.
Christopher Columbus is known as discovering the land of North America because him and others settled and the Vikings didn't.
