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January 22 – the Continental Congress, effectively a caretaker government, elects Cyrus Griffin as its last president. February 1 – Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat in Georgia. February 6 – Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 6th U.S. state (see History of Massachusetts).
July 6 – American Revolution – Battle of Green Spring July 9–24 – American Revolution – Francisco's Fight July 29 – American Revolution – Skirmish at the House in the Horseshoe: A Tory force under David Fanning attacks Phillip Alston's smaller force of Whigs at Alston's home in Cumberland County, North Carolina (in present-day Moore County, North Carolina).
[2] [4] Today, baseball is popular in North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, particularly in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. References to baseball date back to the 1700s when in England it was referenced in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newberry, though he was ...
The one-hour film that focuses mostly on the Negro League’s history in Florida will air on Feb. 2 on various PBS stations, including WLRN and WPBT in Palm Beach County.
Longstanding history was written by C. Vann Woodward, The Origins of the New South: 1877–1913, which was published in 1951 by Louisiana State University Press. Sheldon Hackney explains: Of one thing we may be certain at the outset. The durability of Origins of the New South is not a result of its ennobling and uplifting message. It is the ...
A night game at Fenway Park, a U.S. baseball park in Boston, Massachusetts. A baseball game was played under electric lighting in 1880, the year after Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. It was an experimental game between two department store teams, and it would take another fifty years before organized baseball would
July 10: José María Coppinger leaves office as the last governor of East Florida. July 17: José María Callava the final Spanish and colonial governor of West Florida and Florida as a whole leaves office. July 21: Escambia County and St. John's County, Florida's first two counties are established.
The San Diego Padres hit a record-tying six home runs Sunday night to smash the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-2 in a Major League Baseball playoff game marred by fans in Dodger Stadium throwing what ...