H.I.T.S
WEEK 14
Tuesday(12/8): 1886 The AFL was founded.
Wednesday(12/9): 1958 The John Birch Society was formed.
Thursday(12/10): 1901 The first Nobel Prize was awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
Friday(12/11): 1946 UNICEF was established.
Monday(12/14): 1939 The Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations.
WEEK 13
Tuesday(12/1): 1824 The Presidential Election went to the House of Representatives.
Wednesday(12/2): 1970 The EPA was established.
Thursday(12/3): 1967 Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant.
Friday(12/4): 1875 William "Boss" Tweed escaped from jail and fled the country.
Monday(12/7): 1941 YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS ONE WITHOUT ME PUTTING IT.
WEEK 12
Tuesday(11/17): 1973 President Nixon said "I am not a crook."
Wednesday(11/18): 1928 Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie.
Thursday(11/19): 1794 John Jay signs the Jay Treaty.
Friday(11/20): NONE
Monday(11/21): 1945 U.S. wartime rationing policy ends.
WEEK 11
Tuesday(11/10): 11/11- 1918 The allies and Germany signed an armistice ending WWI.
Wednesday(11/11): Veteran's Day
Thursday(11/12): 1954 Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the U.S.
Friday(11/13): 1942 The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.
Monday(11/16): 1864 General Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the Civil War.
WEEK 10
Monday(11/2): 1948 "Dewey Defeats Truman" OOPS- Truman defeats Dewey.
Tuesday(11/3): 1903 Panama proclaimed its independence from Columbia.
Wednesday(11/4): 1979 American embassy in Tehran was seized by Islamic students and took 90 Americans hostage.
Thursday(11/5): 1940 FDR elected to an unprecedented third term.
Friday(11/6): NONE
Monday(11/9): 1989 Borders between East and West Germany are opened. The next day, the Wall began to be dismantled.
WEEK 8
Wednesday(10/14): 1964 MLK wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
Thursday(10/15): 1914 The Clayton Anti-Trust Act was passed.
Friday(10/16): 1859 John Brown captured the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
Monday(10/19): 1960 The U.S. imposes a partial embargo on goods exported to Cuba.
Tuesday(10/20): 1944 General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines during WWII.
WEEK 7
Wednesday(10/7): 2001 U.S. and British forces launch bombing campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Thursday(10/8): 1871 The Great Fire of Chicago started.
Friday(10/9): 1845 The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.
Monday(10/12): 1960 Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev created a disturbance at the U.N. by pounding his desk with his shoe.
Tuesday(10/13): 1943 Italy declared war on Germany during WWII.
WEEK 6
Wednesday(9/30): 1949 The Berlin Airlift came to an end.
Thursday(10/1): 1908 Henry Ford introduced the first mass-produced automobile on the market-the Model T.
Friday(10/2): 1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice.
Monday(10/5): 1947 President Truman delivers the first televised White House address.
Tuesday(10/6): 1927 "The Jazz Singer", the first full-length talking picture, debuted.
WEEK 5
Wednesday(9/23): NONE
Thursday(9/24): 1991 Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel died at age 87.
Friday(9/25): from 26th. 1960 Richard M. Nixon and John Kennedy took part in the first televised presidential debate.
Monday(9/28): from 27th. 1964 The Warren Commission report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Tuesday(9/29): 1982 Seven people died after taking Extra Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide.
WEEK 4
Wednesday(9/16): 1908 General Motors was founded by William C. Durant
Thursday(9/17): 1862 The bloodiest day in U.S. military history occurred at the Battle of Antietam
Friday(9/18): 1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act which required the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
Monday(9/21): 1938 A hurricane struck New York killing more than 600.
Tuesday(9/22): 1862 President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
WEEK 3
Wednesday(9/9): 1850 California became the 31st state.
Thursday(9/10): 1846 Elias Howe of Massachusetts received a patent for his sewing machine.
Friday(9/11): 1789 Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first secretary of treasury.
Monday(9/14): 1940 Congress passed the Selective Service Act providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. History.
Tuesday(9/15): 1963 A church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama killed four young black girls.
WEEK 2
Wednesday(9/2): Vice President Theodore Roosevelt gave his "speak softly and carry a big stick" speech.
Thursday(9/3): 1976 The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took pictures of the planet.
Friday(9/4): 1957 Nine black students attempted to Little Rock High School but wer blocked by the National Guard.
Monday(9/7): Labor Day
Tuesday(9/8): 1974 President Ford gave President Nixon a full pardon for all federal crimes he may have committed while in office.
WEEK 1
Wednesday(8/26): 1920 The 19th Amendment went into effect.
Thursday(8/27): 1859 Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in U.S. in Titusville, Pa.
Friday(8/28): 1963 MLK gives his famous "I have a dream speech".
Monday(8/31): 1887 Thomas Edison received a patent for his "Kinetoscope" and moving pictures were born.
Tuesday(9/1): 1939 World War II begins when Nazi Germany invades Poland.