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On February 281784John Wesley charters the first Methodist Church in the United States. Despite the fact that he was an AnglicanWesley saw the need to provide church structure for his followers after the Anglican Church abandoned its American believers during the American Revolution. Wesley first brought his evangelical brand of methodical Anglicanism […]

With the region’s white population booming because of the Pike’s Peak gold rushCongress creates the new Territory of Colorado. When the United States acquired it after the Mexican-American War ended in 1848the land that would one day become Colorado was nearly unpopulated by Anglo settlers. UteArapahoCheyenne and other Native Americans had […]

Hanna Reitschthe first female test pilot in the worldsuggests the creation of the Nazi equivalent of a kamikaze squad of suicide bombers while visiting Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden. Hitler was less than enthusiastic about the idea. Reitsch was born in 1912 in HirschbergGermany. She left medical school (she had wanted to be […]

On February 281983the celebrated sitcom MAS*H bows out after 11 seasonsairing a special two-and-a-half hour episode watched by 77 percent of the television viewing audience. It was the largest percentage ever to watch a single TV show up to that time. Set near SeoulKoreabehind the American front lines during the […]

In a surprising announcementSoviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev indicates that his nation is ready to sign “without delay” a treaty designed to eliminate U.S. and Soviet medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe. Gorbachev’s offer led to a breakthrough in negotiations andeventuallyto the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in December 1987. Gorbachev […]

In the first military action in the 45-year history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)U.S. fighter planes shoot down four Serbian warplanes engaged in a bombing mission in violation of Bosnia’s no-fly zone. The United States10 European countriesand Canada founded NATO in 1949 as a safeguard against Soviet aggression. With the […]