Category: This Week in History

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This Week in History May 15: Billy Graham launches a crusade that draws 18,000 people to Madison Square Garden (1957) WW2: Birth of Women’s Army Corp (1942) National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1869) Gordon Cooper is launched into space aboard Faith 7 on…

This Week in History May 8: VE Day, Victory in Europe Day celebrates defeat of Nazis when Germany signed an unconditional surrender (1945) US Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederacy (1861) Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River (1541) World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated (1980) Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta…

This Week in History April 24: In deciding the legal case “United States v. Ballard,” the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the general principle that “the truth of religious claims is not for secular authority to determine.” (1944) Massacre of Armenian Christians by Turks starts on Armenian Martyrs Day (1915) Augustine of Hippo, early Christian theologian,…

This Week in History April 17: Apollo 13 arrives safely on Earth after oxygen tank explosion (1970) US Civil War: Virginia secedes from the Union (1861) 11,745 immigrants arrive at Ellis Island in New York (1897) The Bay of Pigs invasion begins (1961) Charles Henry Parkhurst, preacher who challenged Tammany Hall in New York City…

by Tamera Lynn Kraft This Week in History: April 10: WW2: U.S. Armed forces liberated the prison camp at Buchenwald, Germany where nearly 57,000 prisoners, mostly Jews, perished in the gas chambers (1945) US Civil War: General Order #9, thanking the troops and releasing them from service, was issued by General Lee to the troops…

by Tamera Lynn Kraft This Week in History April 3: US Civil War: Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond (1865) WW2: US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan giving $5B aid to 16 European countries (1948) The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City (1973) Super Outbreak where 148 tornadoes…