The New York Yankees started out as the Baltimore Orioles when the American League was founded in 1901. After two years in Baltimore, the team moved to New York in 1903 and châ¦anged their name to the Highlanders, later to be changed to Yankees in 1913.
Officially billed as The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, An Aquarian Exposition, the festival that came to be known, simply, as Woodstock is the stuff of legend. Friday marks the 45th anniversary of Woodstock, which took place from August 15-18, 1969. Woodstock didn't take place in Woodstock, New York, but in Bethel, about 60 miles away. It was really called Woodstock because (festival co-creator) Mike Lang thought it had the right vibe, Bob Spitz, journalist and author of Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969 told CNN.
TX. Emancipation Day is a public holiday on 16 April each year that, in recent history, has been celebrated only since 2005. If the date falls on a weekend, the holiday is the nearest weekday, either Friday or Monday.Emancipation Day celebrates when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipaton Act in 1862.By doing so, he freed over 3000 slaves in the District of Columbia.f the date falls on a weekend, the holiday is the nearest weekday, either Friday or Monday. Emancipation Day celebrates when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipaton Act in 1862. By doing so, he freed over 3000 slaves in the District of Columbia.