• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions

First National Women's Rights Convention held in Worcester, Mass.(1850)

• The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
  The birth of the women's rights movement in the U.S.

25,000 women marched in New York City for right to vote (1915)

• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
  The site offers a collection of on-line primary documents and supporting materials on women's issues in history.

UN General Assembly convened in NY for the first time in Flushing Meadow (1946)

Zane Grey, American western writer (Riders of the Purple Sage), died at 67 (1939)

Michael Crichton, American novelist (Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park), born (1942)

Pele, Brazilian soccer player considered the best player world wide during his time, born (1940)

President Nixon agreed to turn over the White House tape recordings in the Watergate investigation (1973)

• Watergate
  Comprehensive site about the history of the Watergate scandal.

First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast (1956)

Johnny Carson, comedian and TV show host (Tonight Show), born (1925)