The world would lose one of the most prolific minds of its day on this date in 1566, when Nostradamus, (born Michel de Nostredame), would pass away in France. By the time he passed away, he was locally known as a healer, supposedly coming up with a “rose pill” that would protect you from the plague that had been taking many lives in Europe during the 1530s. His first wife and his two children were victims of this themselves. He was, and still is, known as a seer. His book Les Read More >>

Testing the rights of women voters during the Presidential election of 1872, Susan B. Anthony led a group of women to the poles in New York. On this day, she was fined $100 for this; a fine which she refused and would never pay. In the years prior and until her death in 1906, she was one of the leading forces of women’s rights in the United States. She averaged 75 - 100 lectures per year and was instrumental in getting the government to allow women and blacks the right to vote, Read More >>

After many years of political unrest and chaos in France, work for the Statue of Liberty got underway with the agreement that the United States would find the land and base to support the artwork. The statue is of the robed Roman goddess, Liberta, the goddess of freedom. The statue arrived in New York City on the French ship, Isere, on this day in 1885. It was a gift from the French people to the United States.
It was designed by Frederic Barthholdi, who began working on it in the Read More >>