On This Day (History Game)

[KamaluNg]

Write a fact in history about the day you make a post under this thread.

On January 26 in the 1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.

[mangagirl41]

On this day in 1994, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith is convicted in the murder of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, over 30 years after the crime occurred. Evers was gunned down in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi, home on June 12, 1963, while his wife, Myrlie, and the couple's three small children were inside. :ahh:

[J.Warsoff]

1984: Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk.

[Wayne Doenges]

In 1784, ice flows blocked the Mississippi River in New Orleans, and then passed into the Gulf of Mexico. The only other time this happened was in February of 1899.

[Wayne Doenges]

Remember this?

In 2008, severe evening thunderstorms formed along a cold front, one spawning a tornado that tore through downtown Atlanta, Georgia, the first on record.

[mangagirl41]

Mar 26, 1979:
Israel-Egyptian peace agreement signed

[CodeMonkey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_27