Every day, I am listing a few important dates from world history with scant details–but a list of sources.
- 1881: Andrew Watson made his soccer debut as the first black international soccer player. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1913: Canberra was announced as Australia’s capital. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1930: Mahatma Gandhi set off on his Salt March, a peaceful protest against the tax imposed by the British. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1933: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first Fireside Chat. (Source: This Day in History calendar, ISBN 978-1-7282-8404-0)
- 1938: German troops invaded Austria, what is now known as the Day of the Anschluss. (Sources: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8 and On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell, ISBN 978-0-593-72408-8)
- 1974: Kanawha County, West Virginia, approved a plan to expand the K-12 curriculum to include multiculturalism and equality. The Kanawha County Textbook War ensued. (Source: On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down Number 2 by James Fell, ISBN 978-1-989351-82-6)
- 1990: The participants in the Capitol Crawl demanded the Congress pass the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Source: History.com)
- 2003: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced a global health alert warning about a new disease, which was later renamed severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
I’ve included a video of pictures from the Kanawha County Textbook War.
I’ve also included a story about the 1990 Capitol Crawl.
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