This Week In History
Let’s learn about our past!
1765: The British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act, a law that required taxes on many printed materials in the American colonies and quickly became one of the most controversial and widely opposed measures there.
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1806: After finishing the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began their journey back to St. Louis, Missouri, where the expedition had originally started in May 1804.
1989: The oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef and released about 11 million gallons (41 million litres) of oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, causing the largest oil spill in U.S. history at that time.
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1306: Robert the Bruce was crowned king of Scotland at Scone and later secured the nation’s independence from England with his victory at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 and the Treaty of Northampton in 1328.
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2011: American Democratic politician Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman nominated for vice president by a major U.S. political party in 1984, died at the age of 75.
47 BCE: Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, supported by her Roman ally Julius Caesar, regained power as coruler of Egypt with her brother Ptolemy XIV after defeating her rival brother Ptolemy XIII in a civil war.
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1930: Originally founded as Byzantium around 657 BCE and later renamed Constantinople in the 4th century CE after Constantine the Great made it his capital, the Turkish city officially adopted the name Istanbul.