This Day in History Class

On this day in 1909, singer, actress, and dancer Carmen Miranda was born in Portugal.

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On this day in 1909, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced his invention of Bakelite to the public.

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On this day in 1497, followers of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola burned objects thought to incite sin in an event known as the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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On this day in 1820, the American Colonization Society organized a migration of freed enslaved people from the United States to Africa. 

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On this day in 1958, the U.S. Air Force lost a nuclear bomb in the waters near Tybee Island, off the coast of Georgia. 

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On this day in 1974, twelve people were killed in a bombing on the M62 motorway in northern England. 

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On this day in 1953, Portuguese landowners and colonial officials killed hundreds of forros in São Tomé. 

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On this day in 1922, “Ulysses," a novel by Irish writer James Joyce, was first published in its entirety. 

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On this day in 1902, poet Langston Hughes was born. 

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On this day in 1939, Jewish Polish teenager Renia Spiegel wrote the first entry in her diary. 

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