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 events and anniversaries listed from 1789 to 2018
A digest of historical milestones and celebrity ages including Hamilton becoming the first U.S. secretary of the treasury in 1789, the 1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, Hoover Dam’s startup in 1936, the Pentagon groundbreaking in 1941, Lindbergh’s America First speech, The Carol Burnett Show debut in 1967, the Ford Pinto launch in 1970, Allende's death in 1973, Starr’s report in 1998, 9/11 attacks in 2001, Bush’s 2006 address, bin Laden tape in 2007, Ground Zero visit in 2008, Benghazi attack in 2012, Hurricane Florence in 2018, and ages of Harry Connick Jr and others.
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Alexander Hamilton
U.S
Des Moines
Iowa
United States
CBS
Ford Motor Co
Salvador Allende
Congress
Kenneth Starr
Clinton
America
al-Qaida
New York
World Trade Center
Pentagon
Pennsylvania
George W. Bush
Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Osama bin Laden
John McCain
Barack Obama
Ground Zero