On this day in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. The 19th Amendment prohibits the United States and its ...
On this day in 1979, Smallpox was officially declared eradicated. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global ...
On this day in 1984, thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. You may use ...
On this day in 1886, President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty (La Liberté éclairant le monde)—a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States—on Bedloe ...
On this day in 1998, the SCOTUS rules in New Jersey v. New York that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York. Because the New ...