WebThe extent of the historical basis of the Homeric epics, the Iliad and Odyssey, has been a topic of scholarly debate for centuries.While researchers of the 18th century had largely rejected the story of the Trojan War as fable, the discoveries made by Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik reopened the question in modern terms, and the subsequent excavation of …

WebOct 29, 2014 · Historical events for the 27th of October. See what famous, interesting and notable events happened throughout history on October 27. Menu. Channels On This Day. Calendar; Search; ... October 26, 1881; The Man Who Saved The World October 27, 1962; Faraday, the Blacksmith's Boy Who Changed the World

WebSince our founding by Clara Barton on May 21, 1881, the American Red Cross has been dedicated to serving people in need. We received our first congressional charter in 1900 and to this day we are tasked by the federal government with providing services to members of the American armed forces and their families as well as providing disaster relief in the …

WebJames A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881.He died in Elberon, New Jersey, 79 days later on September 19, 1881.The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Garfield's assassin was Charles J. …

WebHistorical Events on October 15 Calendar Highlights; Events; Birthdays; Deaths; Weddings & Divorces; 533 ... 1881 1st American fishing magazine, "American Angler" published; 1883 US Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional; 1885 Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of season;

WebEvents Pre-1600. 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).; 870 – The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzantine Malta.; 1009 – Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration.; …

WebThe 2009 swine flu pandemic, caused by the H1N1 influenza virus and declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) from June 2009 to August 2010, is the third recent flu pandemic involving the H1N1 virus (the first being the 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic and the second being the 1977 Russian flu). The first two cases were discovered …

Web1908 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1908th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 908th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1908, the Gregorian …

WebAl Sieber (February 27, 1843 – February 19, 1907) was a German-American who fought in the U.S Civil War and in the American Old West against Indians. He became a prospector and later served as a Chief of Scouts during the Apache Wars

WebMarie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans.Her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 – c. 1862), also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana Voodoo. An alternate spelling of …

WebDayton was first incorporated in 1877, but later found to have done so illegally and was re-incorporated on November 10, 1881. The election occurred in the midst of a deadly smallpox epidemic , and a week later the entire town was quarantined by Dayton's first health officer .

WebA banyan, also spelled "banian", is a fig that develops accessory trunks from adventitious prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a strangler habit that begin life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice.

WebSep 18, 2022 · Historical events for the 18th of September. See what famous, interesting and notable events happened throughout history on September 18. Menu. Channels On This Day. Calendar; ... 1881 Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment; 1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)

WebThe use of the term "pogrom" became common in the English language after a large-scale wave of anti-Jewish riots swept through south-western Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine and Poland) from 1881 to 1884; when more than 200 anti-Jewish events occurred in the Russian Empire, the most notable of them were pogroms which occurred in Kiev, …