Gerald R. Ford
Today in History:December 6
Today in History: December 6:
On Dec. 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified.
In 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as Calvin Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress.
Today in History: October 12
Today in History: October 12: In 1870, General Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia; In 1492, Christopher Columbus’s first expedition made landfall on San Salvador Island; In 1968, Mexican track and field athlete Enriqueta Basilio became the first woman to light the Olympic flame; In 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when a bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton; In 2000, 17 sailors were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the destroyer USS Cole; In 2002, bombs blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants destroyed two nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali; In 2019, Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours
Today in History: September 5
Today in History: September 5: Palestinian militants attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games; Sam Houston became first president of Republic of Texas, the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed, ending the Russo-Japanese war.