This Month in History

1802 - The Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1802 convened

1865 - U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding was born in Corsica, Ohio

1926 - Annie Oakley died

1791 - Indians under the command of Little Turtle defeat a military force led by Arthur St. Clair

1911 - Calbraith Perry Rodgers became the first man to successfully fly across North America

1935 - Evangelist William Ashley Sunday died

1811 - The Battle of Tippecanoe occurred

1901 - American Civil War nurse Mary Ann (Ball) Bickerdyke died

1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the creation of the Civil Works Administration

1753 - General Josiah Harmar was born

1951 - Cincinnati minister and Progressive reformer Herbert Seely Bigelow died

1920 - Millville, Ohio resident Kenesaw Mountain Landis became the first commissioner of Major League Baseball

1868 - Former Ohio Governor David Tod died

1895 - Ohio Governor Frank John Lausche was born

1864 - Union General William T. Sherman began his "March to the Sea"

1861 - During the American Civil War, the United States Christian Commission was founded

1764 - Ohio Governor Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr., was born

1764 - After subduing several Indian tribes in the Ohio Country during Pontiac's Rebellion, Henry Boquet and his army returned to Fort Pitt

1752 - American Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark was born

1828 - The Ohio Mechanics Institute was organized in Cincinnati

1924 - Former First Lady Florence Harding died

1963 - Lyndon Baines Johnson became President of the United States

1815 - Ohio governor William Dennison, Jr., was born in Cincinnati

1783 - Ohio governor Allen Trimble was born in Virginia

1950 - The 1950 Ohio State University-University of Michigan football game became known as the Snow Bowl

1827 - Port Clinton was founded in Ottawa County, Ohio

1863 - During the Civil War, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary

1827 - The southern portion of the Miami and Erie Canal opened

1816 - Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Morrison R. Waite was born

1893 - The Ohio Hospital for Epileptics opened