In 1916, the rebel leader Pancho Villa raided Columbus, New Mexico, and killed 18 people.
Villa opposed U.S. influence in Mexico and was seeking to overthrow the Mexican government.
In response, President Woodrow Wilson sent General John Pershing and 6,000 troops into northern Mexico on a mission to find Villa.
Pershing’s expedition clashed with Mexican troops but never caught up with Villa.
The families lived on opposite sides of a stream called Tug Fork in the Appalachian Mountains. The McCoys resided in Pike County, Kentucky, and the Hatfields in Logan County, West Virginia. How the feud got started is not known, but it got under way in earnest with the killing of a Hatfield in 1882. The…
Eleven men stole $2.5 million in cash, checks, and securities from the headquarters of the Brink’s armored car company in the Brink’s robbery of 1950. The crime took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1950. After several years undercover, one of the robbers confessed to the police, and eight of the 11 men were…
The first American restaurant to feature a menu in French and English was the influential continental restaurant Delmonico’s, which appeared in New York City in 1837. Although now in a different New York City location, it still operates today.
Geronimo (1829-1909), leader of the Chiricahua Apaches, born in what is now Arizona, repeatedly defied the U.S. Army’s attempts to restrict his movements to the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. He finally surrendered to General Nelson Miles in Skeleton County, Arizona, on September 4,1886. He spent the rest of his life in captivity.
The Heisman Trophy has been awarded since 1935 by the Downtown Athletic Club of New York City to the country’s top college football player.
The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt, along with other leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Its aim was to strengthen the political power of women following passage of the 19th Amendment (granting women the vote). Since then, the organization’s aims broadened to general advocacy…