Happy International Week of Black Women in the Arts. Whether you participate in the art festivals this week or not, take time to read about your history. We have compiled a list of significant events that happened on this day in history.
Take a look!
- 1633 -Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition for professing the belief that earth revolves around the Sun.
- 1777 -Philosopher, Marquis de Sade, was arrested without charge and imprisoned in Vincennes fortress.
- 1861 -Abraham Lincoln was declared the US President in Washington, D.C.
- 1866 -Jesse James held up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri.
- 1866 -Painter Thomas Eakins resigned from the Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversy over the use of male nudes in a coed art class.
- 1935 -Bruno Hauptmann was convicted of the Lindbergh baby murder after the jury reached a guilty verdict.
- 1937 -Two percent sales tax was passed by the Alabama Senate on this day.
- 1957 -Southern Christian Leadership Conference was organized in New Orleans with Martin Luther King Jr. as President.
- 1958 -A four-passenger Thunderbird was made by the Ford Company, and it was introduced on this day.
- 1971 -US Vice President Spiro Agnew hit 2 tee shots into a crowd while golfing, injuring 2 people.
- 1975 -British mine workers’ leaders agreed to accept the National Coal Board’s latest pay offer of up to 35% in a pay increase.
- 1991 -This was the day that the original manuscript of Huckleberry Finn by Mark was recovered.
- 1996 -Rapper Tupac Shakur released his 4th studio album ‘All Eyez on Me’.
- 1997 -Joseph Stiglitz became the Chief Economist of World Bank.
- 2000 -After Charles M. Schultz died, the comic strip “Peanuts” appeared in the newspapers for the last time.
- 2007 -Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney announced his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential candidacy.
- 2010 – President Barack Obama named a special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
- 2017 – US President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn over his dealings with Russia.
- 2017 – Harrison Ford, was involved in a near-miss while flying a plane at John Wayne Airport, Orange County.
- 2018 – South African President Jacob Zuma was ordered to step down by the A.N.C.