John Jay | search
Click here to view John Jay news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- John Brown Hanged for Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)John Brown Hanged for Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) Brown was a radical US abolitionist who advocated armed action to end slavery. He and his supporters murdered five proslavery settlers in Kansas in 1856, and three years later he tried to start an armed liberation movement among slaves by seizing the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West ...
- John Birch Society Founded (1958) - This Day in History - English - The ...John Birch Society Founded (1958) The John Birch Society was founded in 1958 by Robert H. Welch, Jr., a retired candymaker, to combat communism and promote ultraconservative causes in the US. It was named for an American missionary and army intelligence officer killed by Chinese communists in 1945, considered by the society the first hero of ...
- Theatre Royal Opens at Covent Garden in London, England (1732)Actor-manager John Rich built the first Theatre Royal, Covent Garden with the fortune he had made from the huge success of The Beggar’s Opera. At that time, under the terms of a Royal Patent, Covent Garden was only one of two theatres permitted to perform drama in the capital.
- Illinois Becomes the 21st US State (1818)It has attracted many iconic companies, including Abbott, Allstate, and John Deere. Illinois has also seen an upward trajectory in its economy, with nine credit upgrades since June 2021. Strong economy Illinois is the fifth-largest economy in the United States, and the 18th largest in the world. It has attracted many iconic companies, including ...
- Feast of the Dedication of St. John LateranThis Roman Catholic observance commemorates Pope Sylvester's consecration of the Basilica of the Most Holy Savior, commonly known as St. John Lateran, in Rome on November 9, 324. Churches as they are known today—that is, buildings set apart as places of worship —did not exist for the first two centuries of the Christian era; believers ...
More
