January 1, 1863 A Transcription By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation.   Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:   “That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and…

The start of Coca Cola, which initially included extracts of cocaine and the caffeine-rich kola nut, was a prime example of how important marketing is to the sucess of a product.

CNN) — The mainland United States, which was largely recovering Monday from a near-nationwide heat wave, has experienced the warmest 12 months since record-keeping began in 1895, a top government science and weather agency announced Monday. The report from the National Climatic Data Center, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, does not take into account blistering heat from this month, with 2,116 high temperature marks either broken or tied between July 2 and July 8 in communities nationwide. But it does incorporate the warmest March recorded as well as extreme heat in June, which also helped make the first six months of 2012 the warmest recorded…

The Atlantic What America Looked Like: The San Francisco Earthquake By Brian Resnick Images from the most destructive earthquake in American history Wikimedia Commons In less than 60 seconds, San Francisco was ruined. At 5:13 a.m., April 18, 1906, the San Andreas fault line ruptured, radiating seismic waves of destruction that are now believed to have measured 7.7 on earthquake scales. But the destruction didn’t end there — the quake spawned multiple fires that burned for days, cementing the event as one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history. It is estimated that 3,000 people died and there were $500 million (in 1906 dollars) in damage. Chaos and…

Published: April 29, 2011 By: JENNIE COHEN Last week, archaeologists in Kent, England, discovered the body of a girl believed to have been brutally murdered by Roman soldiers during their second invasion of Britain, which began under the emperor Claudius in 46 A.D. They made the tragic find on a site where Roman soldiers may have camped during their campaign, burying unwanted items there before moving on. Read Story at History.com

On this day ,July 2, in 1964, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally televised ceremony at the White House. In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The 10 years that followed saw great strides for the African-American civil rights movement, as non-violent demonstrations won thousands of supporters to the cause. Memorable landmarks in the struggle included the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955–sparked by the refusal of Alabama resident Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a city bus to a white woman–and Martin Luther King,…