BlueBlood
07-01-2006, 09:41 AM
On This Day
This Day in History
1823: The former Spanish colonies of Guatemala, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica form the Confederation of the United Provinces of Central America.
1863: The Union army takes heavy losses on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, considered the pivotal battle in the American Civil War.
1867: The British North America Act, passed by the British Parliament, goes into effect, joining four North American colonies in the Dominion of Canada.
1898: Theodore Roosevelt leads a group of volunteers known as the Rough Riders in their charge on San Juan Hill in Cuba at the beginning of the Spanish-American War.
1997: At the end of its 99-year lease on the territory, Britain returns Hong Kong to Chinese control.
Born on This Day
Walter White, civil rights activist (1893)
Carl Lewis, track-and-field athlete (1961)
Charles Laughton, actor and director (1899)
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, philosopher and mathematician (1646)
Diana, Princess of Wales, British princess (1961)
Gerald Edelman, biochemist and neuroscientist (1929)
This Day in History
1823: The former Spanish colonies of Guatemala, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica form the Confederation of the United Provinces of Central America.
1863: The Union army takes heavy losses on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, considered the pivotal battle in the American Civil War.
1867: The British North America Act, passed by the British Parliament, goes into effect, joining four North American colonies in the Dominion of Canada.
1898: Theodore Roosevelt leads a group of volunteers known as the Rough Riders in their charge on San Juan Hill in Cuba at the beginning of the Spanish-American War.
1997: At the end of its 99-year lease on the territory, Britain returns Hong Kong to Chinese control.
Born on This Day
Walter White, civil rights activist (1893)
Carl Lewis, track-and-field athlete (1961)
Charles Laughton, actor and director (1899)
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, philosopher and mathematician (1646)
Diana, Princess of Wales, British princess (1961)
Gerald Edelman, biochemist and neuroscientist (1929)