Historical Marker Database

The #NorthlakeIL bank robbery happened #OTD in 1967 www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=245041

The famous gunfight at the OK Corral happened in #TombstoneAZ #OTD in 1881. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=269184

#MarkeroftheWeek The First Transcontinental Highway in #CheyenneWY www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=95580

#OTD in 1948, In-N-Out Burger opened in #BaldwinParkCA 🍔 www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=162254

#OTD in 1977, the plane #LynyrdSkynyrd were flying in crashed in #GillsburgMS www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=146841

#OTD in 1790, General Hardin was defeated by Chief Little Turtle near #LevertIN www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=232339

#MarkeroftheWeek The Lynching of Anthony Crawford / Racial Violence in South Carolina in #AbbevilleSC www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=101841

#OTD in 1790, French immigrants founded the community of #GallipolisOH www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=312390

#OTD in 1963, while excavations were being performed for a pond in #GlenEllynIL, remains of a mastodon were uncovered. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=249606

#OTD in 1940, President Companys was executed at the end of the #SpanishCivilWar in #BarcelonaSpain 🇪🇸 www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=291633

The British Chemical Co. Explosion happened #OTD in 1918 in #QuinteWestON 🇨🇦 www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=272991

#OTD in 1813, Black Warrior Town near #EmpireAL was burned to the ground while its Muscogee (Creek) residents had deserted the community. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=216160

#MarkeroftheWeek CBGB in #NewYorkNY 🎶 www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=137713 #NYC

#OTD in 1773 several in the party of #DanielBoone, including his son, were killed in a surprise attack by a part of Indians in #StickleyvilleVA www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=254045

#OTD in 2000, the Upside-Down House was moved to its current location in #LeeViningCA www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=10167

#OTD in 1871, the #GreatChicagoFire began in Mrs. O’Leary’s barn. #ChicagoIL www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=239712

#OTD in 1780, the South Fork Boys were part of the Battle of Kings Mountain #BelmontNC www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=282492

#OTD in 1800, Chiefs Hicks and Vann encouraged the Council at Oostenaula to open a Moravian mission school in the #CherokeeNation. Chief Hicks is buried in #ChatsworthGA www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=182201 #NativeAmericanHistory

#OTD in 1871, Tolkepaya Yavapai people (then referred to as "Apache Mohave") attacked a stagecoach that encroached on their ancestral lands near #WickenburgAZ. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=29478

#MarkeroftheWeek Trabajando en las Nubes / Working in the Clouds in #CloudcroftNM www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=251361

#OTD in 1923, the Biltmore Hotel opened in #LosAngelesCA 🏨 www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=184909

Fun fact: HMdb now has 1000 profiles for historical markers and war memorials in #RhodeIsland! www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=312529 The 1000th profile: #Bear Ground in #RogerWilliamsPark in #ProvidenceRI

#OTD in 1895, Northern Illinois State Normal School was founded in #DeKalbIL www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=310413

#OTD in 1893, Moses Thatcher, Jr. and his family moved into their home in #LoganUT www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=277250

#OTD in 1879, the Ute people resisted encroachment on their ancestral land in #DeltaCO, killing an Indian Agent in the process. The consequence of this was that the Utes were forced to accept reservation land in CO and UT www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=290982

#MarkeroftheWeek Gloria Casarez in #PhiladelphiaPA www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=188524 #HispanicHeritageMonth #LGBThistory #WomensHistory

#OTD in 1774, #Swedenborgian missionary and prolific apple planter #JohnnyAppleseed was born. This memorial for him stands in #LancasterMA. ⛪️ 🍎 🍏 www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=220703

#OTD in 2010, Republic Pictures held their 75th anniversary celebration in #LosAngelesCA www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=220072

#OTD in 1978 the golden spike of I-90 was dedicated near #BlueEarthMN www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=178485

#OTD in 1922, the Atlanta Race Massacre began in #AtlantaGA www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=227410

#OTD in 1779, General General Bernardo de Gálvez captured Fort Baton Rouge in #BatonRougeLA www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=306010

#MarkeroftheWeek Ferminia Sarras in #LuningNV www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=189611

Betty and Barney Hill reported a UFO abduction #OTD in #PortsmouthNH in 1961. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=74571

#OTD in 1852, Yankee Jim Robinson was the last man hanged in the Opd Town area of #SanDiegoCA www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=296375

#OTD in 1824, Lafayette visited #HudsonNY www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=228826

The Battle of #PacificMO happened #OTD in 1864 www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=169299 #CivilWar

#OTD in 1897, vigilantes took the law into their own hands and shot and hanged five notorious bank robbers extrajudicially in #VersaillesIN www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=100057

#MarkeroftheWeek Monument to the Children Heroes of Chapultepec in #MéridaMexico 🇲🇽 www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=131056

#OTD in 1913, Bear Bryant was born near #KingslandAR. He later became one of the most enduring coaches in #collegefootball history. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=257831

#OTD in 1897, 19 unarmed miners were killed by law enforcement for protesting dangerous working conditions in Lattimer, PA. A memorial stands in their honor in #Willes-BarrePA www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=252326

#OTD in 1957, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth and his family were attacked by a mob in #BirminghamAL for attempting to enroll his children in an all-white school. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=187704

#OTD in 1994, USAir flight 427 crashed near #AliquippaPA www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=215199 For the record, #planecrashes are so rare that when they happen, they make the news and are often permanently memorialized. Imagine if car-related deaths had the same treatment.

#OTD in 1808, a local fiddler was killed on a bridge in #StaatsburgNY www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=252697