New Hampshire, one of the original 13 colonies, was the first state to have its own state constitution. Constitution—the final state needed to put The territory that would become South Dakota was added to the United States in as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
The first permanent American settlement was established at Fort Pierre by the Lewis and Clark expedition in White settlement of the territory in the s Michigan, the Wolverine State, joined the union in Located in the center of the Great Lakes, Michigan is divided into two land masses known as the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. It operated from a series of temporary quarters.
The Minnesota Historical Society survived devastating fires in and , guided the creation of Itasca State Park in , and entered the 20th century with members, , volumes in its library, and a dozen people on staff. To protect its growing and scattered collections from another fire, MNHS needed permanent quarters. That home arrived with the completion in of a dedicated Minnesota Historical Society building in the capitol complex.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! He was charged with crimes against humanity. In London, Spencer Perceval, prime minister of Britain since , is shot to death by deranged businessman John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons. Bellingham, who was inflamed by his failure to obtain government compensation for war debts incurred in Russia, gave On May 11, , a massive storm sends millions of tons of topsoil flying from across the parched Great Plains region of the United States as far east as New York, Boston and Atlanta.
At the time the Great Plains were settled in the mids, the land was covered by prairie During the second week of May , the recently arrived German delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference, convened in Paris after the end of the First World War, pore over their copies of the Treaty of Versailles, drawn up in the months preceding by representatives of their President Kennedy approves sending Special Forces troops and other U.
On the same day, he orders the start of clandestine warfare against North Vietnam to be conducted by South Vietnamese agents under the direction and training of the Hamburger Hill was the scene of an intense and controversial battle during the Vietnam War. Known to military planners as Hill a reference to its height in meters , the solitary peak is located in the dense jungles of the A Shau Valley of Vietnam, about a mile from the Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.
On May 11, , chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigns after 19 moves in a game against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by scientists at IBM. This was the sixth and final game of their match, which Kasparov lost two games to one, with three draws. Kasparov, a
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