This is a day of daring feats from Kon Tiki to Man on a Wire;  highs and lows of US military history in Asia and the 15th anniversary of the tragic bombings of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.  It is ironic that the announcement of the Washington Post sale comes only days before… Read More Next CLBR Aug 7: Today in History

1534 Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France. 1793 France passes 1st copyright law. 1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson. 1847 Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT. 1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union. 1911… Read More Next CLBR July 24: Day in History

1913 Hottest recorded temperature of 134 degrees at Death Valley, CA. Forecast for today is a high of 121 degrees. 1925 Snopes “Monkey Trial” begins in Dayton, Tennessee.  Clip below of Spencer Tracy as Clarence Darrow in that trial from “Inherit the Wind”. 1943 Tennis legend and activist Arthur Ashe born.  Ashe is the only… Read More Next CLBR July 10 – Day in History

This day marks the anniversary of two key events of the 20th Century – the 65th anniversary of the beginning of the Berlin Airlift; and the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s famous speech in Berlin. President Kennedy’s and President Reagans subsequent speech at the Berlin Wall – two historic moments from the Cold War –… Read More NEXT CLBR WED 6/26: DAY IN HISTORY

1817 Opening of first U.S. private mental hospital in Philadelphia. 1891 Pope Leo XIII defends workers’ rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching. 1905  Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off. 1911  In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey… Read More Next CLBR May 15th – Day in History

1707 The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1786 Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria. 1931 Empire State Building dedicated. We are proud to have worked with the creator of a musical… Read More Next CLBR May 1st : Day in History

1865 The United States captures the Confederate States’ Capitol – Richmond. 1895 Oscar Wilde instigates libel charges for (accurate) accusations that he was homosexual.  It would set in motion a turn of events under which the Irish author would ultimately be sent to two-years hard labor for “gross indecency.”  The libel and subsequent criminal trial… Read More Next CLBR Wednesday: Day in History

1727 Sir Isaac Newton – physicist, mathematician and astronomer – died in London. 1828 Playwright Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway. 1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin first published.  Legend has it when President Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, the book’s author, he said, ‘so you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this… Read More Next CLBR Mar 20 (Day in History)

Can a day have bad karma? 1649 King Charles I of England is beheaded. 1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed. 1835 In the first assassination attempt against a President of the… Read More Next CLBR 1/30 (Today in History)