today in history

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1775 – American Revolutionary War begins (More info) 1897 – The first Boston Marathon is run (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is laid (More info) 1775 – Paul Revere rides to warn Massachusetts colonists of the arrival of British troops (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the ‘Canterbury Tales’ for the first time at the court of Richard II (More info) 1961 – A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1943 – The hallucinogenic effects of LSD are discovered (More info) 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the ‘CBS Evening News,’ going on to become “the most trusted man in America” (More info) 1963 – Dr...

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art, commonly called the Met, is founded (More info) 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC, on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1861 – The Civil War begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, SC (More info) 1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA, is founded (More info) 1874 – The first Arbor Day results in over 1 million trees being planted (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1865 – Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War (More info) 1959 – NASA announces its first seven astronauts, later dubbed the “Mercury Seven” (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1792 – President George Washington casts the first presidential veto (More info) 1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1818 – The US Congress adopts a flag with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (More info) 1841 – President William Henry Harrison dies from pneumonia just one month after his inauguration (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run begins (More info) 1882 – Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford, one of his own gang members (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida (More info) 1917 – President Woodrow Wilson asks the US Congress for a declaration of war on Germany (More info)