Welcome to Today's Edition of
Carolina Naturally
Carolina Naturally
Carolina Naturally is read in 210 countries around the world daily.
Let's Play ... !
Don't forget to visit: The Truth Be Told
1219 | The port of Damietta falls to the Crusaders after a siege. | |
1556 | The Emperor Akbar defeats the Hindus at Panipat and secures control of the Mogul Empire. | |
1605 | Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the “Gunpowder Plot.” Ever since, England has celebrated Guy Fawkes Day. | |
1653 | The Iroquois League signs a peace treaty with the French, vowing not to wage war with other tribes under French protection. | |
1757 | Frederick II of Prussia defeats the French at Rosbach in the Seven Years War. | |
1768 | William Johnson, the northern Indian Commissioner, signs a treaty with the Iroquois Indians to acquire much of the land between the Tennessee and Ohio rivers for future settlement. | |
1814 | Having decided to abandon the Niagara frontier, the American army blows up Fort Erie. | |
1840 | Afghanistan surrenders to the British army. | |
1854 | The British and the French defeat the Russians at Inkerman, Crimea. | |
1862 | Lincoln relieves General George McClellan of command of the Union armies and names Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside commander of the Army of the Potomac. | |
1872 | Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote. | |
1911 | Calbraith P. Rodgers ends first transcontinental flight–49 days from New York to Pasadena, Calif. | |
1912 | Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th president of the United States. | |
1914 | France and Great Britain declare war on Turkey. | |
1917 | General John Pershing leads U.S. troops into the first American action against German forces. | |
1930 | Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Babbit. | |
1935 | Parker Brothers company launches “Monopoly,” a game of real estate and capitalism. | |
1940 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for a third term. | |
1968 | Nixon is elected 37th president of the United States. | |
1968 | Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, New York, becomes the first elected African-American woman to serve in the House of Representatives. | |
1995 | Andre Dallaire’s attempt to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is foiled when the prime minister’s wife locks the door. | |
2003 | Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, pleads guilty to 48 counts of murder. | |
2006 | Former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein, along with Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, is sentenced to death for the massacre of 148 Shi’a Muslims in 1982. | |
2007 | Chang’e 1, China’s first lunar satellite, begins its orbit of the moon. | |
2009 | The deadliest mass shooting at a US military installation occurs at Fort Hood, Texas, when US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 and wounds 29. |