1738 – King George III of Great Britain was born in London.
1831 – The independent constitutional monarchy of Belgium named Prince Leopold I as its first king.
1876 – The Transcontinental Express train arrived in San Francisco, 83 hours after leaving New York City.
1896 – Henry Ford took a trial run around the streets of Detroit, MI, in his “Quadricycle,” the first vehicle he had designed.
1910 – Christopher Cockereel, inventor of the Hovercraft, was born in Cherry Hinton, England.
1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded under the name “Plan of Award.”
1919 – Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, and sent it to the states for ratification.
Suffrage Parade, New York City, ca. 1912
1931 – The first rocket-glider flight was made by William Swan in Atlantic City, NJ.
1989 – The People’s Army of China opened fire on pro- democracy student protestors in Peking’s Tiananmen Square.
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I have a Modern Chinese literature teacher who was born and raised in China and she had never even heard of the incident or seen an image of what had happened until moving to the States.