This coming Monday, April 30, marks the 200 anniversary of Louisiana becoming the 18th state. There are some festivities planned over the weekend for the occasion and it gives history buff bloggers like me a change to take to the Internet to celebrate ... »
BATON ROUGE -- How would party politics in the pre-Civil War Era have evolved if President Andrew Jackson took office in 1825 instead of four years later? Would the table ever have been set for Abraham Lincoln to become a... »
1529 – Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas. England, the Netherlands and France are left out. 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacint... »
1513 – Juan Ponce de Leon sets foot on Florida becoming the first European known to do so. He would have arrived sooner but he was behind a little old blue-haired Yankee lady doing 35 in the left lane of the interstate with her blinker on for the last ... »
44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. He should have offered to sign off on some more por... »
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years l... »
Andrew Jackson Higgins ended up a shipbuilding hero of World War II »
The Capital Area March of Dimes will be holding a walk for babies Saturday morning. »
