This Day in History
1845: Founding of the U.S. Naval Academy
To improve the then-unsatisfactory methods of instructing midshipmen, George Bancroft—historian, educator, and secretary of the navy—founded the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on this day in 1845.
More events on this day
1985: American motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer Orson Welles died.
1973: Spiro T. Agnew.Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned from office and pleaded no contest to the charge of failing to report $29,500 in income while governor of Maryland.
1970: Fiji gained independence from Great Britain.
1935: George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway.
1917: Thelonious Monk.American pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, among the first creators of modern jazz, was born. |
