Todays History

Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States’ first female doctor

Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.

The catastrophic eruption of Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea claims 2,942 lives.

Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British during the First Opium War.

World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.

Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease.

Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, results in at least 200 deaths.

The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France. The League of Nations was an international organization founded after World War I…

James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.

Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.