• ASPCA Organization

Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President, born (1833)

• Presidential Sites Resources
• Great Sites for Teaching About…Presidents of the United States
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the presidents.
• U.S. Presidents on the Internet!
  

Plutonium 1st weighed (1942)

First successful parachute jump from a plane (1913)

USSR invaded Czechoslovakia to end reform movement (1968)

US Plant Quarantine Act came into effect (1912)

Lt. William Calley's sentence reduced 20 years after public outcry that he was a scapegoat for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam (1970)

Conservationists George and Joy Adamson (Born Free) gunned down by poachers (1989)

President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over (1866)

• American Civil War Home Page
  This is a simple, one page site that has a VERY comprehensive set of links to Civil War Resources on the internet.
• Valley of Shadow: Two Communities in American Civil War
  The Valley of the Shadow Project looks at two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the lens of the American Civil War. The project is an extensive archive of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, and maps, plus church, census and military records.
• Great Sites about the Civil War