On August 23, 1902, pioneering cookbook author Fannie Farmer, who changed the way Americans prepare food by advocating the use of standardized measurements in recipes, opened Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery in Boston. In addition to teaching women about cooking, Farmer later educated medical professionals about the importance of proper nutrition for the sick.
Fannie Merritt Farmer (March 23, 1857 – January 16, 1915)
The Columbine High School massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on this day in 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.The perpetrators, twelfth grade (senior) students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher and injured 21 additional people trying to escape the school building. Ten students were killed in the library, where the pair subsequently committed suicide.At the time, it was the deadliest shooting at a high school in United States history.
Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold (right) recorded on the high school’s surveillance cameras in the cafeteria, 11 minutes before their suicides.
The New York "Lantern" newspaper published the first "Uncle Sam cartoon" on this day in 1852 and quickly became the symbol of the United States. The editorial cartoon, “Raising the Wind; or, Both Sides of the Story,” was drawn by Frank Henry Bellew (below). It was used in criticizing U.S. policies on shipping.
Frank Henry Temple Bellew (April 18, 1828 – June 29, 1888)
The Dunblane school massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School (above) near Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton shot 16 children and one teacher dead before killing himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history
Public debate about the killings centered on gun control laws, including public petitions calling for a ban on private ownership of handguns and an official inquiry, which produced the 1996 Cullen Reports. In response to this debate, two new Firearms Acts were passed, which outlawed private ownership of most handguns in Great Britain.
Thomas Watt Hamilton (May 10, 1952 – March 13, 1996)
A memorial at the Dunblane primary school in Scotland, where a 43- year-old former shopkeeper with four handguns stormed the school gymnasium.
An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes on this day in 1946.
The Berlin Airlift came to an end on this day in 1949. The airlift had taken 2.3 million tons of food into the western sector despite the Soviet blockade.
On this day in 1962, James Meredith, a black US military veteran, succeeded in registering at the University of Mississippi. It was his fourth attempt to register. President Kennedy (below) had to call in the army to get him admitted.
Meredith, center with briefcase, is escorted to the University of Mississippi campus by U.S. marshals.
August 18, 1963: James Meredith graduates from Ole Miss.
It was on this day in 1955.
James Dean was driving his brand-new Porsche 550 Spyder to an auto rally in Salinas, California, when he was involved in a head-on collision.
