When did Oliver Wendell Holmes serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Wendell Holmes never served as chief justice of the Supreme Court.
He was an associate justice from 1902 to 1932, during the terms of four different chief justices.
The first commercially successful plastic was celluloid, developed by American John Wesley Hyatt in 1869. It was made from a material that had first been produced by British chemist Alexander Parkes in 1855. Hyatt originally intended the synthetic organic substance as a cheap alternative to ivory for the manufacture of billiard balls, but other commercial…
The first game on record played by English colonists in America was a game of bowls played in the streets of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1611.
Technically, the first president of the United States was not George Washington, but John Hanson of Maryland. In 1781, Hanson began a one-year term as the first “president of the United States in Congress assembled” under the Articles of Confederation. Seven other men served as president before Washington, technically, the ninth president, took office in…
It took place on May 4, 1886, at Chicago’s Haymarket Square during a peaceful rally to protest the killing three days earlier of six workers striking for the eight-hour day. Two hundred policemen were sent in to break up the rally. Before they could, a dynamite bomb of unknown origin exploded, killing 8 policemen and…
Peoria, Illinois, got its name from the Peoria tribe of the Illinois Confederacy. The name means “carrying a pack on his back.”
A company of French and Caughnawaga Indians killed about 50 of the 300 residents of the English colonial village of Deerfield, Massachusetts. It was a predawn raid on February 29, 1704, during Queen Anne’s War. Almost 100 settlers were taken to Canada as prisoners.