On this day in 1752, Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm and collects a charge in a Leyden…
Year: 2012
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
(CNN) — A newly discovered account of the shooting of Abraham Lincoln, and his death the next morning, gives a…
State Capital Buildings without Prominent Exterior Cupolas
(Cupolas defined as: A small dome, esp. a small dome on a drum on top of a larger dome, adorning…
Why the Transit of Venus is So Rare
The transit happens when Venus crosses the disc of the Sun as seen from Earth. In 1639, the first ever…
Tiananmen Square Massacre
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/4/newsid_2496000/2496277.stm June 4 1989: Several hundred civilians have been shot dead by the Chinese army during a bloody military operation…
Historic Kensal Rise library
Kensal Rise library offered lifeline after council’s night-time book clearance Brent council officials agree to discuss campaigners’ proposal of running…
The Birth of Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England
Hottest Summer Ever Recorded in the U.S. Last Year
By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press TULSA, Okla. June 2, 2012 (AP) Experts: Okla., Not Texas, Had Hottest Summer Ever…
Big Ben First Rings Out Over London
On May 31, 1859 Big Ben rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, for the first time.
The ‘lost copy’ of the Declaration of Independence on Display
at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in downtown Dallas was rediscovered in 1968 during the closing of a Philadelphia…
