1949

Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong and his supporters gain power in China. George Adamski, grill cook in a roadside hamburger stand, wrote, in his spare time, a document which he called An Imaginary Trip to the Moon, Venus and Mars. He voluntarily listed it...

1934

Hoover attacks FDR’s New Deal policies in The Challenge to Liberty Congress passes the Securities and Exchange Act. In China, Mao Zedong and his followers begin ‘The Long March.’ The British government classifies Physicist Leo Szilard’s atomic...

1903

The US Dept of Commerce and Labor is established. Thomas Edison produces the first ‘western’The Great Train Robbery.’ Henry Ford founds Ford Motors. Robert Sterling Clark – still in the Army – returns to Peking China. Yale Divinity...