Category: Today In History

The Dream is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1910, one of more than 25 Rousseau paintings with a jungle theme. Wikipedia 1293 – Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed 1303 – Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to the English and arranges for marriage of English Prince Edward to French Princess Isabella...

Shawn Nelson steals a tank from a military installation and goes on a rampage in San Diego resulting in a 25-minute police chase.  Click to watch a few minutes of madness. 1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage. 1673 – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River. 1775...

5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in midtown 1527 – Florence becomes a republic 1792 – Denmark abolishes slave trade 1817 – Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1861 – Kentucky proclaims its neutrality Gordon Cooper in his spacesuit 1862 – Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir a Belgian engineer developed the internal...

Three Flags by Jasper Johns, 1958. Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. 1004 – Henry II the Saint crowned King of Italy 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Ad extirpanda authorized in limited and defined...

People march in the Great Beer Parade parade in New York City with Mayor Jimmy Walker leading the way. 1027 – Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France 1607 – First permanent English settlement in the New World, Jamestown, Virginia 1610 – Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII...

Pope Paul Vl moments after he was shot 609 – Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic church 1110 – Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath 1497 – Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) excommunicated Girolamo Savonarola an Italian Dominican friar and an influential contributor to the politics of Florence. He vehemently preached against...