On This Day In History Archive

 AncientPages.com - On January 25, 1905, a 3,106-carat diamond was discovered during a routine inspection at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa. The diamond, weighing 1.33 pounds,

AncientPages.com - On January 23, 1909, a telegraphed distress call came in from the captain of the ocean liner RMS Republic, which in dense fog, collided with an

AncientPages.com - On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. It happened one day after the king was

AncientPages.com - On Jan 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer, was born in Boston. Poe was a writer, editor, and literary critic, best known for his poetry

AncientPages.com - On January 17, 1781, the Battle of Cowpens took place just north of the town of Cowpens, South Carolina. The American forces were led by Daniel Morgan,

AncientPages.com - On January 15, 1929, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia. King was twentieth-century America’s most compelling civil rights leader. After entering Morehouse College

AncientPages.com - On January 13, 1404, the Act Against Multipliers was signed into law. English alchemists were forbidden to use their knowledge to create precious metals. The British parliament

AncientPages.com - On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first aviator to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California. Earhart completed a 2,400-mile trip from Wheeler

AncientPages.com - On 9 January 681,  the Twelfth Council of Toledo was initiated by the new King Erwig, a king of the Visigoths in Hispania (680–687). One of its

AncientPages.com - On January 7, 1131, Canute Lavard (Danish: Knud Lavard) (1096 - 1131) was killed by his cousin Magnus I of Sweden, who saw him as a

AncientPages.com - On 5 January 1896, an Austrian newspaper reported a discovery of a new type of radiation known today as X-rays. Wilhelm Roentgen, a German professor of physics,

AncientPages.com - On January 3, 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Using the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, Pope Leo X cast Luther out of the

AncientPages.com - On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1846), a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily, discovered a faint, distant object, correctly believing it to lie in

AncientPages.com - On December 30, 1924, American astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that there are other galaxies in the cosmos. Our home galaxy Milky Way is not alone; it has

AncientPages.com - On December 27, 1571, Johannes Kepler, 'Father of Modern Astronomy,' was born. His three fundamental statements about planetary motion represent his work, which he based on