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Mar 31, 2014 · Building Pterosaurs Down to Their Hairs, William Henry Harrison’s Killer, Medical Device Loopholes. Harrison had a history of dyspepsia, or indigestion, which potentially heightened his risk of ...
It was into this atmosphere that the 1840 campaigns of Martin Van Buren, the Democratic incumbent, and William Henry Harrison, the Whig nominee, were launched. According to historians, the Harrison-Van Buren campaign was without precedent in American history. The parades, banners, slogans, marching clubs, party newspapers, songbooks, and sheet ...
Apr 4, 2014 · Portrait of Henry Valois, 1768-1771 King Henry III of France, who reigned from 1574 to 1589, is not well known in the English-speaking world. However, in November 1989, Mark Greengrass evoked vividly in History Today the king’s assassination four centuries earlier. As he pointed out, Henry was the first king of France to suffer such a fate.
William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper provides extensive details on the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the attempted assassination of Secretary William Henry Seward. It contains the 1:30 a.m. official dispatch from Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to Major General John A. Dix, as well as the 8:00 a.m. dispatch reporting Lincoln's death. Known as "mourning rules," the ...
Apr 14, 2015 · April 14, 2015 By Michael Green. Fight with the Assassin in Secretary Seward's Room. National Police Gazette, April 22, 1865 (Photo: Smithsonian) After Abraham Lincoln drew his last breath at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton said, “Now he belongs to the ages.”. Stanton had spent the night sending messages to ...
Died. May 28, 1916. (1916-05-28) (aged 79) Jersey, U.K. Occupation. Stage actor. Harry Hawk (April 28, 1837 – May 28, 1916) was an American actor and comedian, remembered as the only performer on stage at Ford's Theatre at the moment Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865.
The inauguration of William Henry Harrison in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 1841. Harrison was the first president-elect to travel by railroad to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration. Wearing no gloves and no overcoat despite the freezing weather, he rode up Pennsylvania Avenue on a white horse to take the oath of office on March 4, 1841.
