Each Day in History

1867

7-Nov

(Madame) Marie Curie (Physicist, Chemist)

6-Jun

David Abercrombie (Abercrombie & Fitch)

5-May

Nellie Bly (Journalist)

16-Apr

Wilbur Wright (Invented the airplane along with his brother Orville)

29-Mar

Cy Young (Baseball player)

7-Feb

Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author of Little House on the Prairie)

15-Nov

The first stock ticker made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange.

18-Oct

The United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.

12-Aug

President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

1-Jul

Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North American Act united the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

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