Category: today

TMN STAFF May 20, there are 225 days left in this year. 1506– Christopher Columbus died in Spain. 1861– North Carolina voted to secede from…

TMN STAFF May 18 1642– The city of Montreal was founded by the French. 1804– Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French…

TMN STAFF May 16, there are 230 days left in this year.   1770– Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France. 1868–…

TMN STAFF May 13, there are 233 days left in the year.   1568– Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside…

TMN STAFF May 12, there are 234 days left in this year 1870– Manitoba became a province of Canada. 1932– The body of Charles and…

TMN STAFF May 11, there are 235 days left in this year. 1858– Minnesota became the 32nd state in the United States. 1894– The Pullman…

TMN STAFF May 10, there are 236 days left in this year.   1775– Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga from…

TMN STAFF May 9, there are 237 days left in this year. 1914– Mother’s Day became a public holiday. 1926– Explorers Richard E. Byrd and…

TMN STAFF May 6, there are 5752 hours left in this year. 1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act over President Chester A. Arthur’s veto.…

TMN Staff May 5, there are 5775 hours left in this year. 1809 Mary Kies of South Killingly, Conn., became the first woman granted a…