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!
Summary of Jan 4 to 10 historical milestones
A compact timeline of notable events: Utah and New Mexico statehood in 1896 and 1912. Morse telegraph demo in 1838. First shots at Fort Sumter in 1861. Lingayen Gulf landing in 1945 and Surveyor 7 lunar landing in 1968. Four Freedoms in 1941. Great Society plan in 1965. 104th Congress convening in 1995. Spirit rover in 2004. Burj Khalifa opening in 2010. Common Sense publication in 1776. London Underground opening in 1863. Standard Oil formation in 1870. Spindletop discovery in 1901. and Stalin on Time cover in 1943.
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Utah
U.S
Josef Stalin
TIME
Lyndon Johnson
U.S. Congress
House
Senate
Eisenhower
NASA
Spirit Rover
Mars
Samuel F.B. Morse
Alfred Vail
New Mexico
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Connecticut
Star of the West
Fort Sumter
S.C
Lingayen Gulf
Philippines
Luzon
Thomas Paine
London Underground
John D. Rockefeller
Henry J. Flagler
Cleveland
Standard Oil
Beaumont
Texas