Jul 30, 1863: Chief Pocatello signs peace treaty. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 3:11, July 30, 2011, from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/chief-pocatello-signs-peace-treaty. The Shoshone chief Pocatello signs the Treaty of Box Elder, bringing peace to the emigrant trails of southern Idaho and northern Utah. Pocatello was a Bannock Shoshone, one of the two major Shoshone tribes that dominated modern-day southern Idaho. Once a large and very powerful people, the Shoshone lost thousands to a smallpox epidemic in 1781. The fierce Blackfoot Indians took further advantage of the badly weakened Shoshone to push them off the plains and into the mountains. The first representatives of a people who would soon prove even more dangerous than the Blackfoot…

July 28, 2010 by Shannon Firth Her pillbox hat, her love of family and her passion for the arts compose the portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. As a young widow, she protected the late President Kennedy’s reputation from critics. Eventually, she tuned out public opinion, married a wealthy shipping mogul and raised her children abroad. After her second husband’s death, Jackie pursued her lifelong dream, living quietly among New York’s literati as a book editor. Jackie Kennedy’s Early Days Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929, in Southampton, New York, daughter of Janet Lee and John “Black Jack” Bouvier, a handsome stockbroker. Jackie had one younger sister, Caroline Lee.…

HULTON ARCHIVE / GETTY IMAGES Machu Picchu, Circa, 1930 Machu Picchu, often called the “Lost City of the Incas, sits at 2,350 meters above sea level in the heart of the Urubamba valley in southern Peru. Many archaeologists believe that it was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438-1472). Rest of Article here

U.S. postal system established. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 5:14, July 26, 2011, from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-postal-system-established. On this day in 1775, the U.S. postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. Franklin (1706-1790) put in place the foundation for many aspects of today’s mail system. During early colonial times in the 1600s, few American colonists needed to send mail to each other; it was more likely that their correspondence was with letter writers in Britain. Mail deliveries from across the Atlantic were sporadic and could take many months to arrive. There were no post offices in the colonies, so mail was…

Tsunami hits Alexandria, Egypt. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 3:47, July 21, 2011, from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tsunami-hits-alexandria-egypt. On this day in the year 365, a powerful earthquake off the coast of Greece causes a tsunami that devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. Although there were no measuring tools at the time, scientists now estimate that the quake was actually two tremors in succession, the largest of which is thought to have had a magnitude of 8.0. The quake was centered near the plate boundary called the Hellenic Arc and quickly sent a wall of water across the Mediterranean Sea toward the Egyptian coast. Ships in the harbor at Alexandria were overturned as the water…

Jul 21, 1861: The First Battle of Bull Run. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 3:20, July 21, 2011, from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-battle-of-bull-run. In the first major land battle of the Civil War, a large Union force under General Irvin McDowell is routed by a Confederate army under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard. Three months after the Civil War erupted at Fort Sumter, Union military command still believed that the Confederacy could be crushed quickly and with little loss of life. In July, this overconfidence led to a premature offensive into northern Virginia by General McDowell. Searching out the Confederate forces, McDowell led 34,000 troops–mostly inexperienced and poorly trained militiamen–toward the railroad junction of…

30 May 2011 Last updated at 21:31 ET By Mark Simpson BBC Ireland Correspondent The Titanic is no longer a taboo topic in Belfast as the city marks 100 years since the luxury liner’s launch. Back in April 1912, there was a sense of embarrassment when the “unsinkable” ship hit an iceberg and went under. Fast forward a century and Belfast is no longer hiding from its Titanic past. The launch, maiden voyage and sinking of the ship will all be marked in the city which now boasts its own Titanic Quarter, full of residential and commercial ventures including a tourist trail. “What happened to Titanic was a disaster but she was…

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