What happened on this day in history: Founding Father John Hancock is born, a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti, and more.1737: John Hancock Is Born Boston Museum of Fine Arts John Hancock, oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, 1765. John Hancock is born in Braintree, Massachusetts. One of America’s Founding Fathers, Hancock presided over the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777 and was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence.
What happened on this day in history: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York, Aaron Hernandez murders Odin Lloyd, and more historical events that happened on June 17th. 1631: Mumtaz Mahal Dies Public DomainA depiction of Mumtaz Mahal, whose tomb became the iconic Taj Mahal. Mumtaz Mahal, the wife of the Mughal Indian emperor Shah Jahān, dies during childbirth at the age of 38. Her mourning husband ordered the construction of an elaborate tomb, the Taj Mahal.
What happened on this day in history: The first batch of Coca-Cola is brewed in 1886, the Rosenbergs are convicted of espionage in 1951, and more.1461: Battle of Towton The Battle of Towton by Richard Caton Woodville Jr., 1922. The Battle of Towton, which may have been the bloodiest battle in English history, takes place during the Wars of the Roses. The Yorkist king Edward IV confronted Lancastrian king Henry VI in North Yorkshire in the middle of a snowstorm.
5. Apple Has A History Of Reliance On Sweatshop Labor Inside a Shenzhen, China electronics manufacturer. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons In a 2010 report about Apple’s factories operating in China, it was found that the factories regularly employed people below the legal working age of 16. That year, counts of Apple’s “core” labor violations—such as involuntary and underage labor—were up from 2009. Just one year later in 2011, the company’s child labor practices had worsened.
Wilmer McLean moved his family 100 miles south after the first battle of the Civil War broke out in his yard — but through a strange twist of fate, Robert E. Lee would surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in McLean's new parlor.Library of CongressWilmer McLean and his family on the front porch of their house in Appomattox in 1865. Wilmer McLean holds a strange spot in American history. In an odd twist of fate, the Civil War began in his backyard and ended in his parlor.