Welcome to The History Exchange.com.
I love history, whether studying or researching or just reading something about history I didn't know. So I started collecting different things about history, maps, pictures, etc. But I also needed someplace to store this great information, thus The History Exchange. I get to play with two of the things I like most, web development and history. I hope you find some interesting information here and feel free to send me a note.
Today in History
1788 Australia Day 1861 Kansas becomes 34th state 1900 American (baseball) League formed with 8 teams 1904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team 1919 Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment) 1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co 1922 Union of Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador dissolved 1936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1955 William Cox buys Yankee Stadium 1958 Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming 1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released 1984 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched 1986 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange