World History

This Day In History

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 by Brooks Barnes
China to Stage a Show of Force with Grand Military Parade attended by Putin and Kim Jong Un by Jennifer Jett and Janis Mackey Frayer, NBC News
Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…

US Politics

The US Supreme Court: Dred Scott Decision

April 01, 2012

New York Post Classroom Extra March 6, 2012 by: Robin Wallace The US Supreme Court…

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Occupy Wall Street NY

March 13, 2012

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a protest movement that began September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New…

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David Norman Dinkins former Mayor of New York

March 12, 2012

On January 1, 1990, David N. Dinkins was sworn in as the first African…

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Governor Christopher James “Chris” Christie

March 11, 2012

Christopher James "Chris" Christie (born September 6, 1962) is the 55th and current Governor of New Jersey. Upon…

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