Elijah Lovejoy, publisher of an antislavery newspaper, is shot to death by a proslavery mob. During his memorial service, John Brown stood and made a vow to end slavery
Clark spends three weeks at Big Bone Lick in America's first organized vertebra paleontology expedition. He uncovers a significant cache of bones of creatures presumably drawn to the area by a salt lick.
Nearly struck by lightning during her pregnancy, Mollie Carter forever after will ascribe A.P.'s tremor, and the quaver for which his singing will become known, to that near miss.
Explore a timeline of the Pacific theater, from the invasion of Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific to the formal Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
In 1968, Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) and Humble Oil and Refining Company (now Exxon Company, U.S.A.) announce the discovery of a massive oil field in Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's northernmost coast, in the frigid Arctic Circle.
