As part of election season, November 3 throughout history is filled with political milestones: the first-ever openly transgender state senator, the first-ever Black female U.S. Senator, and the first-ever openly gay Congressperson to be elected. Read about Sarah McBride, Carol Moseley Braun, Tammy Baldwin and more in This Day in History.
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Read about the day Martin Luther King Day became a holiday, the first move toward an annual Pride Day, voting violence against Blacks in Florida,and more. It’s November 2 in history from MainStream MultiMedia.
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Learn about the founding of Jet and Ebony, the world’s first women’s medical college, the first-ever gay-themed TV movie, and more in This Day in History for November 1, courtesy of MainStream MultiMedia.
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Violet Palmer becomes the NBA’s first-ever referee, Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards, Harry Houdini and River Phoenix die unexpectedly, and more. It’s October 31 on This Day in History by MainStream MultiMedia.
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Learn about the first-ever first African-American general in the Air Force, the birth of World AIDS Day, the start of Ralph Nader’s Raiders, and more. It’s October 27 for This Day in History by MainStream MultiMedia.
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Partake of MainStream’s new and growing new section, the Gender Identity Fact-Based Forum, where you’ll find research, resources, fact-based analysis and more about gender identity.
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Learn about the first-ever Olympic Refugee Team, Ida B. Wells’ anti-lynching pamphlet “Southern Horrors,” Jacinda Ardern’s groundbreaking election, more
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Minimum wage and limits to the workday become Fair Labor Standards, economies collapse on Black Thursday and Bloody Friday, Rishi Sunak makes history for the United Kingdom, John Lennon sues, and more. It’s This Day in History for October 24.
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It’s the day that LGBTQ Center Awareness Day began, and the day when “U=U’ got a big boost. Plus, Saddam Hussein’s trail for crimes against humanity begins. This and more are part of This Day in History for October 19.
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Learn why the Ku Klux Klan caused President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, about the fallout cyclist Lance Armstrong experienced for doping, and the start of Black Poetry Day, The Colbert Report, and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Plus more on This Day in History for October. 17.
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