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1842 – The University of Notre Dame (building pictured) was founded by Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
A record drought in the eastern part of the nation [5] sees Upper Tract, West Virginia record only 9.50 inches (241.3 mm) of precipitation for the year – the record lowest for a calendar year in the US east of the Mississippi. [6] Averaged over the contiguous US the twelve months from July 1930 to June 1931 remains the driest such period on ...
Three decades ago, the world held its breath as tanks blasted the Russian parliament building in central Moscow while the Kremlin moved to flush out rebellious lawmakers in a crisis that shaped ...
1946 – Republicans take control of Congress for the first time in 16 years. 1947 – Presidential Succession Act; 1947 – Taft Hartley Act; 1947 – U.F.O. crash at Roswell, New Mexico; 1947 – National Security Act of 1947; 1947 – General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; 1947 – The Marshall Plan; 1947 – Polaroid camera invented
What happened in Buenos Aires 30 years ago broke her apart. A bomb-laden van exploded inside a Jewish community center where her 21-year-old brother Cristian worked. ... Founded 130 years ago, the ...
June 30: The Tunguska event devastates thousands of square kilometres of Siberia. July: Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire. July 26: Founding of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) October 1: The Ford Motor Company invents the Model T. early October: Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, triggering the Bosnian Crisis.
October 23: At the end of an 11-year demining process, the Falkland Islands are declared free of land mines, 38 years after the end of the Falklands War. October 29: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirms the death of least 140 migrants who drowned off the coast of Senegal on a vessel bound for the Spanish Canary Islands.