Correction: On This Day In Illinois History
On this day in 1938, Northwestern University awarded an honorary master’s degree to Charlie McCarthy, a ventriloquist dummy owned by Edgar Bergen.
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On This Day In Illinois History
On this day in 1832, Sauk leaders Black Hawk and Wabokieshiek surrendered in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, following their defeat at the Battle of Bad Axe, which effectively ended the Black Hawk War.
On This Day In Illinois History
On this day in 1818, the first Illinois Constitution was approved. It would be the law of the land for the next 30 years.
On This Day In Illinois History
Harry Markowitz, an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, was born on this day in Chicago in 1927.
On This Day In Illinois History
On this day in 1920, sci-fi author Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan.
On This Day In Illinois History
On this day in 1858, the first of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates was held in Ottawa.
On This Day In Illinois History
In 1862, The Dakota War began in Minnesota, and would end with President Abraham Lincoln ordering the largest mass execution in American History when 38 Sioux were hanged.
On This Day In Illinois History
On this day in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote. Illinois was the first state to ratify the amendment on June 10, 1920.
On This Day In Illinois History
On this day 1803, troops first arrived to begin construction of Fort Dearborn, beside the Chicago River, in what is now Chicago.
On This Day In Illinois History
OTD in 1908, The Race Riots in Springfield began.
On This Day In Illinois History
On this day in 1803, the Treaty of Kaskaskia was signed at Vincennes, Indiana Territory, between the United States (represented by Governor William Henry Harrison) and the Kaskaskia tribe.
On This Day In Illinois History
On this day in 1818, John K.Mangham of Washington, delegate to the 1818 Illinois Constitutional Convention, unexpectedly died while at the convention in Kaskaskia.
On This Day In Illinois History
On this day in 1887, a train wreck near Chatsworth, in Livingston County resulted in 110 deaths.
On This Day In Illinois History
On this day in 1943, boxer Ken Norton was born in Jacksonville.
On This Day In Illinois History
On August 8, 1988, the Chicago Cubs host the first night game in the history of Wrigley Field.
On This Day In Illinois History
On August 7th, 1861, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, a widower from Galesburg, Illinois, delivered $500 worth of supplies her church collected to Cairo, Illinois.