She was born Carrie Amelia Moore on Nov. 25, 1846. Her father was a slave-holding plantation owner in Kentucky. Her mother had mental problems, which may explain some of Carrie’s future actions. She got married at age 21 to an alcoholic doctor who had served in the Union Army. They Read more…
The D.B. Cooper case is the only unsolved hijacking case in American commercial aviation history. The flight was from Portland to Seattle on Nov. 24, 1971 (Thanksgiving eve). A nondescript male in his mid-40s passed a note to a stewardess. The note read “I have a bomb in my Read more…
He was born Henry McCarty on Nov. 23, 1859 in the Irish tenements of New York City. As a teenager, his family moved to Wichita and eventually New Mexico. After his mother died of tuberculosis when he was 14, his life took a turn for the worse. He went from Read more…
The most famous pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy was born Edward Thach (more likely than Teach) in Bristol, Great Britain in 1680. He was a privateer (a legally sanctioned pirate encouraged to attack enemy shipping) during Queen Anne’s War. When the war ended he joined a pirate named Read more…
Henrietta Robinson was born on Nov. 21, 1834. She came from a wealthy Quaker family. She learned business and finance from her father and grandfather. At age 13, she took over as accountant for her family business. At age 20, her father bought her an expensive wardrobe of dresses to Read more…
On August 12, 1819 the whaling ship Essex set sail from Nantucket, the whaling capital of America. The voyage was supposed to last more than two years. On board were 21 men and a rookie captain named George Pollard, Jr. Two days into the voyage, a squall wrecked one Read more…
The ceremony was for the dedication of the national cemetery on Nov. 19, 1863. It contained only the Union dead. Some of them were being buried during the ceremony. The town of Gettysburg had only 2,500 citizens and 15,000 people showed up for the ceremony. Beds were at a premium. Read more…
This is the anniversary of the second worst mass civilian casualty event due to a deliberate act in American History. Here are some interesting facts. Jim Jones created the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis in 1956. Jones, a civil rights activist, envisioned his organization to be an integrated congregation that worked Read more…
It is thought that Egyptian pharaoh Sensuret III had a canal built connecting the Red Sea to the Nile around 1850 B.C. Later, Persian Emperor Darius I constructed a similar east – west waterway. In 1798, during his Egyptian campaign, Napoleon sent out a team of surveyors to explore the Read more…
Jack Sheppard became the most famous criminal in early 18th Century England. Born to poor parents in 1702, he was apprenticed to a carpenter. After five years, he was one year away from completing his training, but that’s when he discovered the joys of drinking and whoring. Soon he Read more…