Today in History…This Stuff Happened
Today is Election Day, make sure you exercise your democratic and civic duty. It’s a chance to make history.
1570 – A North Sea tidal wave kills more than 1,000 people along the coast of a number of Scandinavian countries.
1772 – In a move to unite the colonies, Massachusetts patriots Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren create the Committee of Correspondence.
1889 – Happy Dakota Day! North and South Dakota become the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1898 – The first cheerleading team is started at the University of Minnesota. Despite its long history in the US, it is still not considered a sport.
1917 – The British support the Balfour Declaration which creates the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”
1936 – Mussolini announces the Rome-Berlin Axis, creating the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Diệm is assassinated in a military coup after the US withdraw their support of the leader.
1976- Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald R. Ford in the presidential election. He is the first U.S. president elected from the Deep South since the Civil War.
2004-President George W. Bush is elected to his second term.
2009- Afghanistan’s election commission proclaims Hamid Karzai victor and president after contested election.
