Archive Digger

3761 BC – The beginning of the modern Hebrew calendar.

1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, Spain and Italy destroy the Turkish/Ottoman fleet, halting their advance into Europe.

1765—The Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York to draw up  complaints about English rule in the colonies .

1849— Edgar Allan Poe dies.

1879—  Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronshtein) is born  in the Ukraine.

1949 – The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.

1962 – U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test.

1963 – President JFK signs ratification for Partial Test Ban Treaty.

1982 – Cats opens on Broadway, beginning an 18 year run.

1996— Fox News Channel debuts.

1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student, is the victim of a hate-crime in Laramie Wyoming.

2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins.

2003— California voters recall Gov. Gray Davis and elect actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as his replacement.