on the 31st day of July, 1865. The claims in these forty-nine suits being about $1,187 61, and the costs amounting to about $3,237 14. That schedule A, hereto annexed, contains a statement of the ...

In July 1865 Mary Surratt was hanged after being convicted of being part of the conspiracy which led to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln earlier that year. Mary maintained that she ...

He surrendered at the Garrett farm, was tried and convicted, and was executed by hanging in July 1865. German-born Azterodt was a carriage painter and boatman who had secretly ferried Confederate ...

Then, on his eighth attempt in July 1865, he finally achieved his lifelong ambition. But it came at great cost, after all but one of his climbing companions fell to their death on the steep descent.

It certainly isn't because no one tried — assassination attempts and half-baked conspiracies against sitting presidents have ...

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Columbus Day/Indigenous People's Day, observed on the second Monday in October, is the only federal holiday that isn't a ...

The first attempt to kill a presidential candidate happened on October 14, 1912. On that date, Theodore Roosevelt, another ...

In fact, Barnum played up the likelihood of belugas dying quickly to motivate the public to visit his exhibits! In July 1865, he wrote in the New York Herald that “NOW IS THE TIME to see these wonders ...

SYDNEY/SEOUL (Reuters) -Hyundai Motor India sold shares worth $989.4 million to institutional investors including BlackRock ...

THAAD adds a new dimension to Israel’s layered defense, specifically by enhancing its ability to intercept missiles in the ...