Daniel Boone(November 2, 1734 – September 26, 1820)
American frontier legend Daniel Boone was born and raised in Pennsylvania and blazed Wilderness trails in old Kentucky, living off the land as a hunter and trapper. He learned how to shoot at age twelve. Boone was married to Sarah Morgan and Rebecca Bryan and had a total of ten children between the two. His frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
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Statue Daniel Boone on campus of Eastern Kentucky University.
Meriwether Lewis(August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809)
Meriwether Lewis explored and mapped the American Northwest with his partner William Clark. He was appointed to be President Thomas Jefferson‘s aide in 1801 and provided him with information regarding army politics. In addition to helping map the U.S., he served as the Governor of Louisiana.
Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships on this day in 1492. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
Illustration depicting Christopher Columbus’s fleet departing from Spain.
On the day in 1914, Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.
It was on this day in 1948.
Whittaker Chambers holds a newspaper with the Hiss verdict.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) was founded on this day in 1949. The league was formed by the merger between the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.
Leo Ferris (second from left) and representatives of the NBL and BAA shake hands.
Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) is 91 years old today.
Singer Tony Bennett is known for his renditions of show tunes, jazz, and popular songs like "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" and "Rags to Riches." He dropped out of school to work as a copy boy in order to help support his family. Bennett was a painting and music student at New York’s School of Industrial Art.
Battle of the Little Bighorn began on this day in 1876, when the US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer’s Last Stand."
John Dean began his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee on this day in 1973.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (June 11, 1910 – June 25, 1997)
On this day in 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the "Spirit of St. Louis." The trip took 33 1/2 hours.
Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in 1932. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.
On this day in 1961, a white mob attacked the Freedom Riders in Montgomery, AL. The event prompted the federal government to send in U.S. marshals.
The Freedom Riders Burning Bus.
During a violent storm on his first return voyage, Columbus, then approximately 41, suffered an attack of what was believed at the time to be gout. During later years, he was plagued with influenza and other fevers, bleeding from the eyes, and prolonged attacks of gout. The suspected attacks increased in duration and severity, sometimes leaving Columbus bedridden for months at a time, and culminated in his death 14 years later at age 54.
