This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Notable historical events from 1923 to 2001 in brief
Timeline notes include a Halloween party at the Sixth Reformed church in 1923 hosted by Minnie Vander Water, Luther’s 95 Theses in 1517, Houdini’s 1926 Detroit death, Mount Rushmore completion in 1941, Lee Harvey Oswald renouncing citizenship in 1959, NASA astronaut death in 1964, LBJ halting Vietnam bombing in 1968, Gandhi's assassination in 1984, a 1994 Chicago bound plane crash, Jefferson paternity study in 1998, EgyptAir 990 crash in 1999, and nurse Kathy Nguyen’s 2001 death from inhalation anthrax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth Reformed Church
Minnie Vander Water
Wm. H. Vander Water
Lincoln Avenue
Harry Houdini
Detroit
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
South Dakota
U.S
Moscow
Astronaut Corps
Ellington Air Force Base
Houston
Lyndon B. Johnson
North Vietnam
Indira Gandhi
Indiana
Thomas Jefferson
Sally Hemings
EgyptAir
New York
Cairo
Massachusetts
New York Hospital
Kathy T. Nguyen