History Calendar

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The earliest-known photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken around 1847.

Thank you everyone for following along this past week leading up to the 250th anniversary of American independence! Starting tomorrow, posts will return to covering international as well as American history. Stay tuned!

Johnny Clem, “The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.” He was the youngest soldier in the Union Army, shot a Confederate colonel, and retired with the rank of General in 1915.

Dwight D. Eisenhower punting a ball during practice at West Point, 1915.

One man during the showing of the 1915 film “Birth of a Nation” was so moved by the scene where Flora Cameron flees Gus (a black character) to avoid being raped that he took out his handgun and began firing at the screen in an effort to help her.

Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris, 1946.

Robert C. Ogden, U.S. Secretary of War William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington and Andrew Carnegie at Tuskegee Institute's 25th anniversary celebration, 1906

President Theodore Roosevelt posing for a photograph, 1906.

July 5, 2009 — The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.

July 5, 1999 — U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

July 5, 1984 — The United States Supreme Court gives its United States v. Leon decision providing a good-faith exception from the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials.

San Francisco in the wake of an earthquake and fire, 1906.

July 5, 1950 — Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.

July 5, 1943 — World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.

July 5, 1934 — "Bloody Thursday": The police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.

The oldest known photograph of a presidential inauguration in the United States. James Buchanan was sworn in on March 4, 1857.

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July 5, 1852 — Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech in Rochester, New York.

July 5, 1833 — Admiral Charles Napier vanquishes the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.