Category: today

TMN Staff May 4, there are 241 days left in the year. 1626 Peter Minuit landed in Manhattan, which he later bought for $24 worth…

TMN Staff May 3, there are 242 days left in the year. 1937 Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the…

TMN Staff May 2, there are 243 days in 2016. 1885 Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time. 1939 Lou Gehrig established…

April 29, there are 246 days left in the year. 1429 Joan of Arc entered the city of Orléans. She would end its months-long siege…

April 28, there are 247 days left in 2016. 1788 Maryland became the 7th state in the United States. 1789 Fletcher Christian led the mutiny…

April 27, there are 248 days left in the year. 1521 Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in a fight with natives of the Philippines.…

April 20, 2016.  There are 255 days remaining in the year. 1769 Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered. 1841 The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe’s…

April 19, 2016, there are 256 days left in this year. 1775 The “shot heard around the world” was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on…

Today is April 1, there are 274 days left in the year. 1789 Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first Speaker of the House…

Today is March 31, there are 279 days left in this year. 1492 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain expelled Jews who would not…