by qdmhistory | Nov 8, 2021 | Popular
On November 8, 1731, Benjamin Franklin opened the first library in the North American colonies. The Library Company of Philadelphia was the first circulating library in America. Before this, most Americans did not have access to books as they were expensive. Only the...
by qdmhistory | Nov 7, 2021 | Popular
On November 7, 1805, Captain William Clark wrote in his notebook about “great joy in camp.” Clark believes the Lewis and Clark Expedition is finally in sight of the Pacific Ocean. Imagine the depth of their joy after so long in the wilderness....
by qdmhistory | Nov 6, 2021 | Popular
We all know of Mahatma Gandhi’s fight for freedom in India. But few of us understand what culminated in this cause. In 1893, a shy Indian lawyer named Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi arrived in Durban, South Africa, to represent Messrs Dada Abdullah’s firm in a...
by qdmhistory | Nov 5, 2021 | Popular
The Gunpowder Plot was a botched attempt to blow up King James I of England and his entire Parliament on November 5, 1605. Guy Fawkes was caught with thirty-six barrels of gunpowder in the cellars beneath Westminster on that fateful midnight of November 4, 1605. He...
by qdmhistory | Nov 4, 2021 | Popular
Howard Carter, a British Egyptologist and his team began excavating the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, on November 4, 1922. Tutankhamun, alias King Tut, was an Egyptian pharaoh who became ruler at nine years old in 1333 B.C until his death a...
by qdmhistory | Nov 3, 2021 | Popular
George Frideric Handel born in 1685, and he died in 1759. George Frideric Handel was a great German-English composer who became slightly blind in 1751. The eye problem affected his music career negatively. George Frideric Handel found it challenging to finish his...
