Category: History Knowledge

Le 12 avril 1955, tous les journaux et télévisions américains annonçaient avec joie que le vaccin antipoliomyélitique de Jonas Salk était un succès. À peine

When Congress ratified the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, giving American women the right to vote, it reflected the culmination of the work of

At the start of the 1896 presidential election year, things looked rosy for Republicans. But the emergence of a brash young politician, William Jennings Bryan,

When the Selective Training and Service Act became the country’s first peacetime bill in September 1940, civil rights leaders pressured President Franklin D. Roosevelt to

In the fall of 1918, as the second deadly wave of the influenza pandemic known as the “Spanish Flu” swept the country, schools in cities

On August 6, 1945, the United States became the first and only country to use atomic weapons in wartime by dropping an atomic bomb on

On August 5, 1962, film actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead at her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered naked lying on her bed,

By the dawn of the 20th century, tuberculosis – otherwise known as consumption, “white plague” or “white death” – had become the leading cause of

When delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 reflected on the question of the age of a president, the big concern was not that the