“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
~George Santayana
August 24: Today in 1814 the British Troops set fire to the White House during the War of 1812. The White House was vandalized in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812.
August 25: On this date in 1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey was the first US woman to win in the Olympics.
August 26: Today in 1939 the first televised Major League baseball game was broadcasted. Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
August 27: In 1883 Krakatau exploded. It is the most powerful volcanic eruption recorded in history. Heard 3,000 miles away, the explosions threw five cubic miles of earth 50 miles into the air, created 120-foot tsunamis and killed 36,000 people.
August 28: On this day in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson is picketed by woman suffragists in front of the White House, who demand that he support an amendment to the Constitution that would guarantee women the right to vote.
Staff Reporter- Allysen Brown
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