Barack Obama - 44th President of United States

Wow!! What a Historic Night!! Happy to have witnessed this moment in history!!



Barack Obama's Journey

Martin Luther King - Timeline of Events

Martin Luther King was assassinated 40 years ago on April 4th, 1968. I have pieced together events in Martin Luther King's life on Google Maps. Source of my data was Wikipedia.

In the Google Maps Mashup I created, the location information for events pop up on Google Maps every 10 seconds. You can disable the "Auto Play" feature by clicking the "Disable/Pause" button.

American History, Geography, Trivia and...Americana

Here's a great Mashup I bumped into at GoogleMapsMania. It is...quoting the map creator

The most interesting pieces of American history, geography, trivia and .. Americana. To be visited if one has excess time, money and inclination

Tragic week in US History (April 15-21)

April 15th. 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theater, Washington DC (Google Maps View)


April 16th, 1947 - Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, (Google Maps View) to catch fire, killing almost 600.


April 16th, 2007 - Virginia Tech Massacre: A gunman goes on a shooting rampage killing 33 at the Virginia Tech Campus in Blacksburg, Virginia (Google Maps View).


April 18th, 1983 - United States Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon (Google Maps View) where 63 people died.


April 19th, 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, (Google Maps View) is bombed, killing 168.


April 20th, 1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves in the Columbine High School massacre (Google Maps View).