Today in History - May 23 President William Howard Taft presided over the dedication of the New York Public Library...
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Today in History - May 22 On May 22, 1802, the first of first ladies, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died...
Today in History - May 21 On May 21, 1796, attorney and statesman Reverdy Johnson was born in Annapolis, Maryland....
Today in History - May 20 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862. Continue reading. Click here...
Today in History - May 19 Johns Hopkins was born to a Quaker family on May 19, 1795, in Anne...
Today in History - May 18 Educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune died at the age of eighty on...
Today in History - May 17 Popular rider Oliver Lewis rode H. P. McGrath’s thoroughbred Aristides to victory in the...
Today in History - May 16 On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate voted 35 to 19, one vote short...
Today in History - May 15 Lyman Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was born on May...
Today in History - May 14 On May 14, 1607, English settlers arriving under the authority of the Virginia Company...
Today in History - May 13 On May 13, 1864, a Confederate prisoner of war was buried on the grounds...
Today in History - May 12 On May 12, 1850, Republican statesman and noted historian Henry Cabot Lodge was born...
Today in History - May 11 On May 11, 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state admitted into the Union. Continue...
Today in History - May 9 President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation on May 9, 1914, asking Americans to give...
Today in History - May 8 On May 8, 1846, General Zachary Taylor defeated a detachment of the Mexican army...
Today in History - May 7 Archibald MacLeish, poet, dramatist, and ninth Librarian of Congress, was born on May 7,...
Today in History - May 6 On May 6, 1856, Robert E. Peary, who claimed discovery of the North Pole,...
Today in History - May 5 Mexican troops under General Ignacio Zaragoza successfully defended the town of Puebla on May...