Happy Birthday, Milton Hershey
Businessman and philanthropist Milton Snavely Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in Derry Township, Pennsylvania.
Businessman and philanthropist Milton Snavely Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in Derry Township, Pennsylvania.
On August 13, 1918, Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps Reserve.
Stephen Vincent Benét was born on July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
On June 4, 1940, over 338,000 Allied troops were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk after being cut off and surrounded there for weeks.
The youngest man ever elected President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917.
On February 29, 1796, the Jay Treaty went into effect, resolving some lingering issues between America and Great Britain following the Revolutionary War.
On September 12, 1862, the Civil War Battle for Harpers Ferry began.
On August 2, 1943, future president John F. Kennedy saved the majority of his PT-109 crew after a Japanese destroyer rammed them.
On July 9, 1863, Confederate forces surrendered Port Hudson, Louisiana, ending a 48-day siege.