Salem Witch Trials

1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachussets
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• 1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland

1845 US President John Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas

• 1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)

• 1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor with apprpx 480 passengers and crew; she was never seen again

• 1864 Rebecca Lee in the US becomes 1st African American woman to receive a medical degree

• 1872 Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park

1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity

• 1910 118 die when three passenger trains buried at Steven’s Pass, Wa, in Cascade Range by the worst snow slide in US history

• 1912 U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry performs first (attached-type) parachute jump from an airplane

1932 The “Lindbergh kidnapping”, 20 month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh kidnapped from home in East Amwell, New Jersey, found dead 12 May

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• 1936 Boulder (Hoover) Dam fully completed

1941 Captain America created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby  first appears in comic book form, published by Timely Comics

• 1941 German troops invade Bulgaria

1941 Heinrich Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp

• 1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US House of Representatives injuring 5 members

1961 US President JFK establishes the Peace Corps.

• 1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
• 2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan as US special operations forces infiltrate the Shahi-Kot Valley in Eastern Afghanistan

• 2011 Tomb of a 700 year old female mummy, discovered by road workers, opened in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China.  (More)