Sterling Alexander Martin Wood was born on March 17, 1823, in Florence, Alabama. Educated by Jesuits, he was graduated from St. Joseph& 39;s College in Bardstown, Kentucky, in 1841. Wood studied law, then worked as an attorney in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, later establishing a practice in Florence, Alabama.
On November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour writes an important letter to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The letter would eventually become known as the Balfour Declaration.
A contemporary engraving of the conspirators involved in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a failed attempt to blow up the English Parliament. (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Battle of Goodwin Sands, 19 May 1652The battle of Goodwin Sands (or Dover) of 19 May 1652 developed from a chance encounter between two English squadrons and a Dutch fleet taking shelter off Dover, and led to the outbreak of the First Anglo Dutch War.Relationships between the Dutch and the English had been poor for some time.
Thomas Paine Writes Common Sense 1776& 34;Common Sense,& 34; published in January, argued that the time had come to sever colonial ties with England; and that it was in the American interest to do so. This pamphlet sold 120,000 copies in the first three months and was instrumental in convincing many colonists that the time had come for Independence.
An ancient balsalt pillar in the southeastern section of the Erebuni Fortress, located on the outskirts of present-day Yerevan, Armenia. (Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Preserve, Yerevan, Armenia...
