This Day In History

It was 24 years ago today that Microsoft released Windows 1.0.

The Mayflower makes landfall in the New World in 1620 and President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg address on this day in 1863.

Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult members in a mass murder-suicide in 1978 and the tragic Texas A&M bonfire collapse happens on this day 10 years ago. 

Congress holds its first session in Washington D.C. in 1800 and a meteor shower lights up the skies worlwide on this day in 1998.

The U.S. adds a new state on this day in 1907 and a popular musical is performed for the first time on Broadway 50 years ago.

The Articles of Confederation were adopted on this day in 1777 and Banglades is rocked by Cyclone Sidr two years ago.

During World War II the English city of Coventry was bombed by the Germans, killing more than 1,000 civilians and destroying the medieval cathedral.

King Edward VIII announced his intentions to marry a divorced American woman in 1936 and the Montgomery Bus Boycott ended on this day in 1956.

The first known pictures of the Loch Ness Monster were taken on this day more than 75 years ago.

General Sherman begins the burning of Atlanta in 1864 and World War I comes to an end when Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies on this day in 1918.