Tag: today in history

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…

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…