http://history1900s.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hh http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2013-04-30T13:10:22Z Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:10:22 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/30/history-quote-of-the-week-104.htm <p>"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!" -- Quote by <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Warren-Harding.htm">U.S. President Warren Harding</a></p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/30/history-quote-of-the-week-104.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/30/history-quote-of-the-week-104.htm Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:04:39 +0000 2013-04-30T14:04:39Z http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/30/baseball-legend-joe-dimaggio.htm Although he was quiet and shy, Joe DiMaggio could hit and field a baseball so easily that he almost look lazy out there on the field. 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He was a genial guy, but ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/29/warren-g-harding-the-worst-u-s-president.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/29/warren-g-harding-the-worst-u-s-president.htm Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:53:45 +0000 2013-04-29T23:53:45Z http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/11/margaret-thatcher-dies.htm <p>Margaret Thatcher, known as "the Iron Lady," died on April 8, 2013 after suffering a stroke. She was 87. Thatcher was the prime minister of the United Kingdom for 11 years, from 1979 to 1990, and was the first woman in modern history to lead a Western country. </p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/11/margaret-thatcher-dies.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/11/margaret-thatcher-dies.htm Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:03:11 +0000 2013-04-11T22:03:11Z http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/history-quote-of-the-week-103.htm <p>"Follow your own passion -- not your parents', not your teachers' -- yours." -- Quote by oceanographer Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic's wreck</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/history-quote-of-the-week-103.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/history-quote-of-the-week-103.htm Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:05:50 +0000 2013-04-04T10:05:50Z http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/tearing-down-more-of-the-berlin-wall.htm <p>During the Cold War, the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/od/coldwa1/a/berlinwall.htm">Berlin Wall</a> became a symbol of the feud between East and West. While most of the Wall was torn down in 1989, a few sections were left up as reminders of the past. The largest of these sections, known as the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://www.eastsidegallery.com/historyesg.htm">East Side Gallery</a>, is a 0.8 mile (1.3 km) section of the Berlin Wall that has been painted over by artists from all over the world and has become a popular tourist destination.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/tearing-down-more-of-the-berlin-wall.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/tearing-down-more-of-the-berlin-wall.htm Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:51:16 +0000 2013-04-04T09:51:16Z http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/smithsonian-has-to-say-wright-brothers-first.htm <p>As more information is found out about a 1901 manned flight by German immigrant Gustav Whitehead, experts are questioning who really was the first to fly. However, the Smithsonian has just released information about a 1948 contract it made with the estate of Orville Wright that gave the Smithsonian the Wrights' famous Flyer for $1 but stipulated that the museum must always state that <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/od/firstflight/a/Wright-Brothers.htm">the Wrights were the first to fly</a>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/smithsonian-has-to-say-wright-brothers-first.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/smithsonian-has-to-say-wright-brothers-first.htm Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:09:45 +0000 2013-04-04T09:09:45Z http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/one-of-hitlers-food-tasters-survived.htm <p>Margot W&#246;lk is now 95, but when she was taken from her mother-in-law's home by SS men and forced to become one of <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/cs/hitleradolf/p/hitler.htm">Adolf Hitler's</a> food tasters, she was just 24-years old. Her story is both heroic and tragic. For more than two years, she was forced to eat delicious food, but couldn't enjoy it for fear of it being poisoned. She was at the Wolf's Lair during the July 20 assassination attempt on Hitler. She was raped by an SS officer. By a chance of luck, she managed to escape when the Soviets were near, but then suffered even more from the Soviets.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/one-of-hitlers-food-tasters-survived.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/04/04/one-of-hitlers-food-tasters-survived.htm Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:26:13 +0000 2013-04-04T08:26:13Z http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/03/27/the-invention-of-bubble-gum.htm <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/qt/bubblegum.htm">Chewing gum</a> has a history that spans as far back as the ancient Greeks, who chewed the resin from mastic trees. However, it wasn't until 1928 that Walter Diemer happened ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/03/27/the-invention-of-bubble-gum.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/03/27/the-invention-of-bubble-gum.htm Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:55:58 +0000 2013-03-27T22:55:58Z http://history1900s.about.com/b/2013/03/27/biography-of-emmeline-pankhurst.htm British suffragist <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Pankhurst.htm">Emmeline Pankhurst</a> championed the cause of women's voting rights in Great Britain in the early 20th century, founding the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. 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