Betsy Ross Stamp
On January 2, 1952, the US Post Office Department issued a commemorative stamp honoring Betsy Ross, one day after her 200th birthday.
On January 2, 1952, the US Post Office Department issued a commemorative stamp honoring Betsy Ross, one day after her 200th birthday.
On December 26, 1919, Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees, ushering in the long-standing superstitious Curse of the Bambino.
Christopher Houston Carson was born December 24, 1809, in Richmond, Kentucky.
On December 15, 1936, the first of 10 stamps in the Army/Navy Set was issued.
On November 20, 1889, one of the world’s most renowned astronomers, Edwin Hubble, was born.
On November 19, 1965, the U.S. Post Office issued the first stamp in a new series honoring Prominent Americans.
On November 18, 1865, Mark Twain published an early version of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” in The New York Saturday Press, bringing him his first significant fame.
American composer and conductor John Philip Sousa was born on November 6, 1854, in Washington, DC.
James Knox Polk was born on a farm in Pineville, North Carolina, on November 2, 1795.