On This Day in America
To remember our past - to improve the present - to influence the future
Establishment of Washington, D.C.
“a swampy, humid, muddy and mosquito-infested site on the Potomac River”
Scopes Monkey Trial Begins
“What Scopes represented and what the world came to witness was a colossal clash of ideals.” Inherit the Wind
Bob Dylan records “Blowin’ In The Wind”
“How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?”
MLB All-Star Game created a blueprint for other leagues to follow
“Wasn’t it swell – an All-Star game?’’
The Battle of Gettysburg Ends
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
Continental Congress votes for independence from Britain
“My name is Richard Henry Lee. Virginia is my home.”
