Alyssa Riggs

We The People: This Day in History, October 16

Hispanic Heritage Month started on September 15th and ends on October 15th.

We The People: This Day in History, September 28

We The People: This Day in History, September 26

On September 23, 1875, Billy the Kid was arrested for the first time after stealing a basket of laundry.

On September 21, 1882, Mary Maxwell Armstrong was born.

On September 20, 1990, classes started at Paul Quinn College on the school’s new campus in Dallas after moving from Waco.

We The People: This Day in History, September 17

On September 11, 2001, the world watched in horror as two jetliners slammed into New York City’s World Trade Center, while another crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.

On August 20, 1866, President Andrew Johnson, declaring that “the insurrection in the State of Texas has been completely and everywhere suppressed and ended,” officially ended the Civil War by proclaiming peace between the United States and Texas.