This Month in History

1886 - Workers across the United States strike, seeking an eight-hour day

1934 - Cincinnati radio station WLW became the most powerful radio station in the world

1774 - White settlers in Kentucky kill eleven Mingo Indians, including two relatives of Chief Logan, sparking Lord Dunmore's War

1970 - Ohio National Guard soldiers open fire at Kent State University, with four people being killed

1863 - During the Civil War, a detachment of soldiers arrest Peace Democrat Clement Vallandigham for violating General Order No. 38

1834 - The American Anti-Slavery Society held its annual convention at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati

1873 - Former Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the United States Salmon P. Chase died

1973 - Ohio voters amend the Ohio Constitution of 1853, creating a state lottery

1902 - The Ohio Legislature adopts Ohio's current state flag

1917 - Former Ohio Governor Joseph B. Foraker died in Cincinnati

1986 - Football star and coach Fritz Pollard, the first African-American to play in the Rose Bowl, died

1800 - President John Adams appointed William Henry Harrison as governor of the Indiana Territory

1937 - John Joseph Klem, also known as Johnny Shiloh or the Drummer Boy of Chickamauga, died

1737 - Samuel Holden Parsons, an investor in the Ohio Company of Associates, was born

1999 - Crew Stadium, the first soccer-specific stadium in the United States, opened in Columbus

1882 - Elizabeth Anne O'Hare McCormick, a reporter for the New York Times, was born

1863 - During the Civil War, the Battle of Black River Bridge, one of the battles leading to the Siege of Vicksburg, occurred

1889 - Scientist Thomas Midgley, Jr., was born

1864 - During the Civil War, the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, one of the battles in the Wilderness Campaign, ended

1916 - George Cox, the city boss of Cincinnati, died

1950 - Former Ohio Governor Harry Lyman Davis died

1863 - The United States government authorized the creation of the United States Colored Troops

1824 - Union General Ambrose Burnside was born

1893 - The Ohio Anti-Saloon League formed in Oberlin

1961 - In a speech delivered this day, President John F. Kennedy challenged the American people to place a man on the Moon by the end of the decade

1999 - Inventor Waldo Semon died

1992 - Mound City in Chillicothe, Ohio became part of the National Parks System

1888 - Football player and coach James (Jim) Frances Thorpe was born

1851 - Sojourner Truth participates in the National Women's Suffrage Convention in Akron, Ohio

1912 - Aviator Wilbur Wright died from typhoid fever

1898 - Minister Norman Vincent Peale was born