Roosevelt Delivers Speech After Being Shot
Shortly after being shot in the chest by an attempted assassin, Theodore Roosevelt delivered a ninety-minute campaign speech on October 14, 1912.
Shortly after being shot in the chest by an attempted assassin, Theodore Roosevelt delivered a ninety-minute campaign speech on October 14, 1912.
After more than two months at sea, Christopher Columbus reached what he believed was East Asia on October 12, 1492.
On October 9, 1940, one of the world’s most celebrated songwriters and performers was born – John Lennon.
On October 5, 1813, future President William Henry Harrison won the Battle of the Thames, securing American control of the Northwest frontier for the remainder of the War of 1812.
More than 70 years after one of the world’s most famous ships tragically sank, it was discovered largely intact on the ocean floor on September 1, 1985.
On August 30, 1967, Thurgood Marshall became America’s first African American Supreme Court Justice.
On August 18, 1587, Virginia Dare was born at Roanoke Island (present-day North Carolina). However, little of her life after that is know due to the mysterious disappearance of the entire colony.
On August 16, 1777, American troops won the Battle of Bennington – though the battle didn’t actually take place in Vermont.
After a decade of construction, the Panama Canal opened to traffic on August 15, 1914.