Archive Digger

1648 – Who knew? Boston Shoemakers form the first labor union in the U.S.

1685— Sun King Louis XIV  revokes the Edict of Nantes, thus denying legal toleration of the Protestant Huguenots.

1767 – The Mason-Dixon line survey is finished. The “imaginary” line persists to this day.

1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed by her slave owners in Boston.

1851 – Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is published.

1867 – Happy Alaska Day, Sarah Palin! United States takes possession of Alaska. 

1898 – United States takes posshttp://www.tumblr.com/edit/1344656608?redirect_to=%2Ftumblelog%2Farchivedigger%2Fdraftsession of Puerto Rico.

1962— Watson & Crick (and Dr. Maurice Wilkins, who doesn’t get enough credit) are named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work on DNA.

1989— Erich Honecker, mastermind of the Berlin Wall, is deposed as East Germany’s leader.

1991 – Azerbaijan declares its independence from USSR.

2007— Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returns to the country after 8 years of self-imposed exile.