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!
Anniversaries and Today in History in The News
A compact list of notable anniversaries from 1745 to 1949 notes figures like Lindley Murray and Samuel Crothers with brief birthplace and death years. The section also covers Today in History items such as Boone’s expedition, the Volstead Act ruling, and D-Day context, plus today’s birthdays and a census supervisor’s note on Cambridge and Dorchester County population changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindley Murray
England
Dauphin County
John F. Goucher
Baltimore
Waynesburg
Samuel M. Crothers
Cambridge
Mass
Oswego
Albert 5. Burleson
Wilson
San Marcos
Tex
Austin
Edwin E. Slosson
Albany
Kansas
Dana C. Munro
Univ. of Wisconsin
Princeton
Bristol
R. B
Daniel Boone
North Carolina
Red River
Richard H. Lee
Continental Congress
Pacific Stock Exchange
San Francisco
China
Cleve
Orient
U. S. Supreme Court
Vatican City
Japsub
Seattle
Wash
Normandy
Okinawa
U. S
Bureau of Census
Edith Putmen Parker
University of Chicago
Rochester
Herbert Feis
State Department
New York
Alexander P. Seversky
Russia
Frederick E. Terman
Stanford University
School of Engineering
English
Ind
Robert D. Workman
Naval Chaplains
Zanesville
Ohio
Herman B. Wells
Indiana University
Jamestown
George Szell
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra