This Day in History Class

On this day in 1897, the now-famous editorial answering Virginia O'Hanlon's question about whether Santa Claus exists was printed in the New York Sun. 

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The first ever Canne Film Festival began in Canne, France

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The first fully contained underground detonation took place at a research center in Nevada.

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On this day in 1895, Daniel David Palmer performed what's considered the first chiropractic adjustment. 

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On this day in 1925, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was seriously injured in a bus accident that altered the course of her life. 

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On this day in 1979, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon.

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On this day in 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed in an act of terrorism by white supremacists.

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On this day in 1921, Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to be named a federal court judge, was born. 

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On this day in 1922, a fire in Smyrna in Asia Minor -- present-day İzmir, Turkey -- began blazing through the city. 

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Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was deposed on this day in 1974. 

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