Moments in Time – April 24, 2019
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On May 10, 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House’s first telephone installed, although he rarely received phone calls. In fact, the Treasury Department ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – April 17, 2019
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On May 5, 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French military leader who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner on the remote island of ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – April 10, 2019
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On April 23, 1014, Brian Boru, the high king of Ireland, is assassinated by retreating Norsemen shortly after his Irish forces defeated them. A small group of fleeing Norsemen ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – April 3, 2019
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On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln dies from an assassin’s bullet. Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington the night before, Lincoln ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – March 28, 2019
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On April 13, 1360, a hailstorm kills an estimated 1,000 of King Edward’s III’s English soldiers in France. The heavy losses were seen as a sign from God, convincing ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – March 13, 2019
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On March 30, 1855, in territorial Kansas’ first election, some 5,000 “Border Ruffians” invade the territory from western Missouri and force the election of a ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – March 6, 2019
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On March 20, 1345, according to scholars at the University of Paris, the Black Death plague is created from what they call “a triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – Feb. 27, 2019
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On March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius, who believed that his death ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – Feb. 20, 2019
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On March 6, 1475, Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, is born in Caprese. His most important early work was the Pieta (1498), a traditional ... Continue Reading →
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