History
Guildford Four are cleared of IRA bombings
The Guildford Four, convicted of the 1975 IRA bombings of public houses in Guildford...
Napoleon retreats from Moscow
One month after Napoleon Bonaparte’s massive invading force entered a burning and...
“Take on Me” music video helps Norway’s A-ha reach the...
From its beginnings in the early 1980s, it was clear that MTV, the Music Television...
John Z. DeLorean is arrested in $24 million cocaine deal
On October 19, 1982, the automaker John Z. DeLorean is arrested and charged with...
Stock markets have the largest-ever one-day crash on "Black...
The largest-ever one-day percentage decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
First MLB players' strike begins
At 12:01 a.m. on April 1, 1972, the first collective players’ strike in Major League...
World Series History
The World Series—or Fall Classic—annually pits the pennant winners of the American...
How Inca Mummies Ruled Over the Living
The most important members of Inca society continued to be treated as living beings...
Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile
Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile in Valladolid, thus beginning a...
U.S. takes control of Puerto Rico
Only one year after Spain granted Puerto Rico self-rule, American troops raise the...
Peking’s Summer Palace destroyed
British troops occupying Peking, China, loot and then burn the Yuanmingyuan, the...
Thomas Edison dies
Thomas Alva Edison, one of the most prolific inventors in history, dies in West...
Clean Water Act becomes law
The Clean Water Act becomes law on October 18, 1972. After centuries of reckless...
OPEC enacts oil embargo
The Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announces...
Before America Had Witch Trials, Europe Had Werewolf Trials
A few of the accused may have been actual pedophiles or serial killers, but many...
Marie Antoinette is beheaded
Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France,...
Nazi war criminals executed
At Nuremberg, Germany, 10 high-ranking Nazi officials are executed by hanging for...
Baby Jessica rescued from a well as the world watches
On October 16, 1987, in an event that had viewers around the world glued to their...
Stampede kills 84 at World Cup match
A stampede of soccer fans before a World Cup qualifying match in Guatemala City...
Walt Disney Company is founded
On October 16, 1923, Walt Disney and his brother Roy found the Disney Brothers Cartoon...
7 Groundbreaking Inventions by Latino Innovators
From entertainment devices to lifesaving medical technologies, Latino inventors...
The 18-Year-Old Woman Who Struck Out Babe Ruth and Lou...
On April 2, 1931, minor leaguer Jackie Mitchell fanned the Yankees' sluggers in...
“Funeral coaches” exempted from car-seat law
On October 15, 2004, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rules that...
Clarence Thomas confirmed to the Supreme Court
After a bitter confirmation hearing, the U.S. Senate votes 52 to 48 to confirm Clarence...
Vichy leader executed for treason
Pierre Laval, the puppet leader of Nazi-occupied Vichy France, is executed by firing...
Freshman Michael Jordan hits winning shot to give North...
On March 29, 1982, 19-year-old North Carolina freshman Michael Jordan makes a 16-foot...
Greg Norman blows six-shot Masters lead in epic collapse
On April 14, 1996, third-round leader Greg Norman loses a six-shot lead in the final...
Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the...
The Battle of Hastings
King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror...
Theodore Roosevelt shot in Milwaukee
Before a campaign speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, presidential candidate Theodore...
“Wake Up Little Susie” becomes the Everly Brothers’ first...
Harmony singing was a part of rock and roll right from the beginning, but the three-...
How Puerto Rican Baseball Icon Roberto Clemente Left a...
The Pittsburgh Pirates' star—the first Latino Hall of Famer in baseball—was a hero...
7 of the Most Dramatic US Plane Crashes
Although not the deadliest, these flight disasters are among the most unforgettable...
Why Black Cats Are Associated With Halloween and Bad Luck
Cats' association with witches and evil dates at least as far back as the 13th century....
7 of the Greatest Hail Mary Passes of All Time
Colorado's Kordell Stewart called his 64-yard, game-winning touchdown pass against...
Sir Isaac Brock saves Canada from U.S. invasion
During the War of 1812, British and Indian forces under Sir Isaac Brock defeat Americans...
Singer Charlie Rich protests John Denver’s big win at the...
In a 35-year career that ran from the rockabilly genius of "Lonely Weekends" (1960)...
Palestinians hijack German airliner
Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa airliner and demand the release of 11 imprisoned...
Chilean miners are rescued after 69 days underground
On October 13, 2010, the last of 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile underground...
First Masters golf tournament begins
On March 22, 1934, the first Masters golf championships tees off in Augusta, Georgia....
NHL star Maurice Richard suspended; riot ensues
On March 16, 1955, NHL president Clarence Campbell suspends Montreal Canadiens star...
Why the Statue of Liberty Almost Never Got Built
Although France paid for the statue, the US had to pay for the pedestal. The construction...
Miracle of the Andes: How Survivors of the 1972 Flight...
When an Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes, cannibalism helped some survive...
The Lithuanian Immigrant Who Launched the First Women’s...
On March 22, 1893, 15 months after Canadian-born James Naismith invented basketball,...
Conscientious objector awarded Medal of Honor
Private First Class Desmond T. Doss of Lynchburg, Virginia, is presented the Medal...
Terrorists kill 202 in Bali
On October 12, 2002, three bombings shatter the peace in the town of Kuta on the...
USSR leads the space race
The Soviet Union launches Voskhod 1 into orbit around Earth, with cosmonauts Vladamir...
The origin of Oktoberfest
Bavarian Crown Prince Louis, later King Louis I of Bavaria, marries Princess Therese...
USS Cole attacked by terrorists
At 12:15 p.m. local time, a motorized rubber dinghy loaded with explosives blows...
Silent-film star Tom Mix dies in Arizona car wreck
On October 12, 1940, cowboy-movie star Tom Mix is killed when he loses control of...
Apollo 7 launched
Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, is launched with astronauts Walter M....
Boer War begins in South Africa
The South African Boer War begins between the British Empire and the Boers of the...
Pope John XXIII opens Vatican II
Pope John XXIII convenes an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church—the...
Bruce Springsteen scores his first pop hit with “Born to...
By 1975, 26-year-old Bruce Springsteen had two heavily promoted major-label albums...
John Lennon’s "Imagine" is released
October 11, 1971 sees the release of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” one of the most influential...
The Transcontinental Railroad's Dark Costs: Exploited Labor,...
Chinese immigrant workers and Indigenous tribes paid a particularly high price....
Meteorite crashes into Chevy Malibu
On October 9, 1992, 18-year-old Michelle Knapp is watching television in her parents’...
Rhode Island founder banished from Massachusetts
Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov, the Soviet physicist who helped build the USSR’s first...
Oskar Schindler—credited with saving 1,200 Jews during...
German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust,...
St. Paul’s Cathedral bombed
During the Battle of Britain, the German Luftwaffe launches a heavy nighttime air...
The Dramatic NFL Championship Game Nearly the Entire Country...
On Christmas Eve 1950, the Cleveland Browns beat the Los Angeles Rams in an epic...
Che Guevara captured by Bolivian army
A Bolivian guerrilla force led by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara is defeated...
Jerry Lee Lewis records “Great Balls Of Fire” in Memphis,...
Jerry Lee Lewis was not the only early rock-and-roller from a strict Christian background...
Self-help guru’s sweat lodge ceremony turns deadly
On October 8, 2009, two people die and more than a dozen others are hospitalized...
First person in U.S. diagnosed with Ebola dies
On October 8, 2014, Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with a case of...
The Office of Homeland Security is founded
The Office of Homeland Security is founded on October 8, 2001, less than one month...
The Most Dramatic Home Run in World Series History
In the bottom of the ninth in Game 7 of the wild 1960 World Series, Bill Mazeroski...
7 Famous Loyalists of the Revolutionary War Era
From a son of Benjamin Franklin to a Mohawk leader to the loyalist governor of Massachusetts,...
Battle of King’s Mountain
During the American Revolution, Patriot irregulars under Colonel William Campbell...
East Germany created
Less than five months after Great Britain, the United States and France established...
Moving assembly line debuts at Ford factory
For the first time, Henry Ford’s entire Highland Park, Michigan automobile factory...
A New York judge reverses John Lennon’s deportation order
On October 7, 1975, a New York State Supreme Court judge reverses a deportation...
U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan begins
On October 7, 2001, a U.S.-led coalition begins attacks on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan...
Union and Confederate forces clash at Battle of Darbytown...
A Confederate attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond, Virginia,...
Cincinnati Red Stockings become first professional baseball...
On March 15, 1869, Cincinnati attorney Aaron Champion hires former cricket player...
Dunmore's Proclamation
On November 7, 1775, John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore and governor of the British...
How Did Baseball's Seventh-Inning Stretch Originate?
The American tradition might date to President William Howard Taft in 1910, but...
First Mennonites arrive in America
Encouraged by William Penn’s offer of 5,000 acres of land in the colony of Pennsylvania...
President Kennedy urges Americans to build bomb shelters
President John F. Kennedy, speaking on civil defense, advises American families...
Marvin Miller elected first full-time MLB Players Association...
On March 5, 1966, Marvin Miller, the 48-year-old assistant to the president of the...
First women's college basketball game played
On March 22, 1893, the first women’s college basketball game is played at Smith...
Lawsuit prompts MLB to allow locker room access to female...
On March 9, 1979, the 26 Major League Baseball teams are ordered by MLB commissioner...
What Prehistoric Cave Paintings Reveal About Early Human...
Some of the oldest known art may hint at the beginning of language development,...
8 Famous Figures Who Believed in Communicating with the...
While belief in an afterlife is a cornerstone of many ancient and modern religions...
How the Salem Witch Trials Influenced the U.S. Legal System
Those accused lacked basic legal protections, including the premise that one was...
Man who served 25 years for murder exonerated by DNA
On October 4, 2011, Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison for his wife’s...
Iraq wins independence
With the admission of Iraq into the League of Nations, Britain terminates its mandate...
Maze hunger strike called off
A hunger strike by Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison in Belfast in Northern...
Amanda Knox murder conviction overturned in Italy
On October 3, 2011, in a decision that makes international headlines, an Italian...
Sinéad O’Connor tears up a photo of Pope John Paul II on...
On October 3, 1992, Irish musician Sinéad O’Connor stuns the audience at 30 Rockefeller...
Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first Black Supreme Court...
Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice of...
Warsaw Uprising ends
The Warsaw Uprising ends on October 2, 1944, with the surrender of the surviving...
Nazi war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg
On October 1, 1946, 12 high-ranking Nazis are sentenced to death by the International...
Lawrence of Arabia captures Damascus
A combined Arab and British force captures Damascus from the Turks during World...
Gunman opens fire on Las Vegas concert crowd, wounding...
On October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire on a crowd attending the final night of...
Suicide bombers stage attacks in Bali
On October 1, 2005, suicide bombers strike three restaurants in two tourist areas...
Mianne Bagger becomes first transgender athlete to play...
On March 4, 2004, Mianne Bagger, a golfer from Denmark, makes history at the Women’s...
10 World Engineering Marvels
These remarkable feats of design and construction transformed the ways that people...
What Was the Curse of the Bambino—and How Was Baseball's...
Weeks after a foul ball bloodied a teen who lived in Babe Ruth’s former farmhouse,...
College basketball star Hank Hathers collapses on court,...
On March 4, 1990, Loyola Marymount University star senior forward Hank Gathers sprints...
Riots over desegregation of Ole Miss
In Oxford, Mississippi, James H. Meredith, an African American student, is escorted...
USS Nautilus—world’s first nuclear submarine—is commissioned
The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, is commissioned by the U.S....
Munich Pact signed
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign...
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and best-selling author,...
On September 29, 1928, Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, the human rights activist and Nobel...
Joseph Marion Hernández becomes the first Hispanic elected...
On September 30, 1822, Joseph Marion Hernández becomes the first Hispanic to be...
7 of the Fiercest Rivalries in College Football History
Michigan-Ohio State had a 'Ten-Year War,' and the 1982 Stanford-Cal game was won...
Stacy Allison becomes first American woman to reach summit...
Stacy Allison of Portland, Oregon, becomes the first American woman to reach the...
Babi Yar massacre begins
The Babi Yar massacre of nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women and children begins on...
Dow suffers largest single-day drop
On September 29, 2008, after Congress failed to pass a $700 billion bank bailout...
Mexican-American voting rights advocate Willie Velasquez...
On September 29, 1995, voting rights advocate Willie Velasquez is posthumously awarded...
The Heisman Trophy Is Named After This Coach and Innovator
Hall of Famer John Heisman, one of college football's most successful coaches, introduced...
Pompey the Great assassinated
Upon landing in Egypt, Roman general and politician Pompey is murdered on the orders...
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming was a young bacteriologist when an accidental discovery led...
Passenger ferry, Estonia, sinks, killing 852
On September 28, 1994, 852 people die in one of the worst maritime disasters of...
William the Conqueror invades England
Claiming his right to the English throne, William, duke of Normandy, invades England...
Fidel Castro announces that Cubans are free to leave the...
On September 28, 1965, six years after he led the Cuban Revolution and four years...
Arctic shipping lane opens due to ice melt; cargo ship...
On September 28, 2018, the cargo ship Venta Maersk docks in St. Petersburg, Russia,...
Eight MLB players indicted in "Black Sox Scandal"
On September 28, 1920, a Chicago grand jury indicts eight members of the Chicago...
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, fought from March 13 to May 7, 1954, was a decisive...
The Real Stories Behind 7 Famous Sports Movies
From 'Raging Bull' to 'The Blind Side,' here's Hollywood's spin versus the truth....
How the Renaissance Challenged the Church and Influenced...
As interest in cultural, intellectual and scientific exploration flourished, support...
Salem Witch Trials: Who Were the Main Accusers?
Though adult women—and a few men—accused their neighbors of witchcraft in 1692,...
7 Early NFL Quarterbacks Who Changed the Game
Benny Friedman was the league's 'first real quarterback,' and the Los Angeles Rams'...
British suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst dies
Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette and international socialist, dies in Addis...
Jesuit order established
In Rome, the Society of Jesus—a Roman Catholic missionary organization—receives...
John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British
On September 27, 1779, the Continental Congress appoints John Adams to travel to...
Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" is published
Rachel Carson’s watershed work Silent Spring is first published on September 27,...
“West Side Story” opens on Broadway
On September 26, 1957, West Side Story, composed by Leonard Bernstein, opens at...
Shannon Lucid returns to Earth
U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid returns to Earth in the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis...
Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe
English seaman Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England, in the Golden Hind, becoming...
IRA officially disarms
Two months after announcing its intention to disarm, the Irish Republican Army (IRA)...
Bill of Rights passes Congress
The first Congress of the United States approves 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution,...
The Howard Dean scream
At an energetic rally on the evening of January 19, 2004, Democratic presidential...
Los Angeles Lakers' record winning streak ends
On January, 9, 1972, the longest winning streak in major professional sports is...
Miami Dolphins win Super Bowl VII to cap NFL's only perfect...
On January 14, 1973, the Miami Dolphins achieve something no NFL team has repeated:...
Sandy Koufax becomes youngest player elected to Baseball...
On January 19, 1972, 36-year-old Sandy Koufax, the former Los Angeles Dodgers star,...
NFL's Rams announce move to St. Louis
On January 17, 1995, after years of poor attendance at home games and poor on-field...
The Freezer Bowl: The Coldest Game in NFL History
In the 1981 AFC Championship Game between the San Diego Chargers and Cincinnati...
How Mexican Vaqueros Inspired the American Cowboy
Classic Westerns have cemented the image of cowboys as white Americans, but the...
Muhammad completes Hegira
On September 24, 622, the prophet Muhammad completes his Hegira, or “flight,” from...
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes first female jockey to win race...
On February 22, 1969, 19-year-old Barbara Jo Rubin becomes the first female jockey...
First all-Black professional basketball team organized
On February 13, 1923, the New York Renaissance, the first all-Black professional...
13 Facts About the 13 Colonies
The 13 British colonies eventually joined to form the United States—but as colonies,...
Standard Oil geologists arrive in Saudi Arabia
On September 23, 1933, a party of American geologists lands at the Persian Gulf...
Planet Neptune is discovered
German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovers the planet Neptune at the Berlin...
Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis
Amid much public excitement, American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark...
Mac Davis earns one of the 1970s’ most head-scratching...
On September 23, 1972, “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” by singer-songwriter Mac Davis...
Jay Berwanger picked No. 1 in first NFL draft
On February 8, 1936, at Philadelphia’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel, University of Chicago...
Shani Davis becomes first Black athlete to win individual...
On February 18, 2006, Shani Davis becomes the first Black athlete to win an individual...
The NFL's Longest Game: How a Soccer Player-Turned-Kicker...
In an epic, double-overtime game on Christmas Day 1971, Miami Dolphins kicker Garo...
The famous “four-level” opens in Los Angeles
On September 22, 1953, the first four-level (or “stack”) interchange in the world...
Iran-Iraq War begins
Long-standing border disputes and political turmoil in Iran prompt Iraqi President...
U-boat devastates British squadron
In the North Sea, the German U-9 submarine sinks three British cruisers, the Aboukir,...
The first Farm Aid concert is held in Champaign, Illinois
It started with an offhand remark made by Bob Dylan during his performance at Live...
Shaka Zulu assassinated
Shaka, founder of the Zulu Kingdom of southern Africa, is murdered by his two half-brothers,...
First Muslim holiday U.S. postage stamp is issued
Five years of lobbying comes to fruition on September 1, 2001, as the U.S. Postal...
Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists at the 1968...
American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos ascend the podium to receive the gold...
Million Man March
An enormous crowd consisting mostly of African American men demonstrates on the...
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" is published
On October 29, 1965, nine months after its subject’s assassination, The Autobiography...
Monarchy abolished in France
In Revolutionary France, the Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy...
The Great New England Hurricane
Without warning, a powerful Category 3 hurricane slams into Long Island and southern...
When Frank Gifford Was Knocked Out by One of the Most Vicious...
In 1960, Chuck Bednarik's 'perfectly legal' hit on the New York Giants' star resounded...
Muhammad Ali: Boxing Legend ... and 2-Time Grammy Nominee
In 1964, the fighter was up for the music honor for a comedy album. Twelve years...
The Silk Road: 8 Goods Traded Along the Ancient Network
The vibrant network opened up exchanges between far-flung cultures throughout central...
NCAA grants freshmen eligibility in football, basketball
On January 8, 1972, the NCAA grants freshmen eligibility in its two biggest team...
Joe Namath spurns NFL to sign record deal with AFL's New...
On January 2, 1965, quarterback Joe Namath spurns the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals...
First Cannes Film Festival
The first annual Cannes Film Festival opens at the resort city of Cannes on the...
Magellan sets sail from Spain
Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Spain in an effort to find...
Amish convicted in beard-cutting attacks
16 members of a dissident Amish group in Ohio are convicted of federal hate crimes...
First European battle on American soil
Spanish forces under Pedro Menéndez de Avilés capture the French Huguenot settlement...
Louganis wins Olympic gold the day after suffering head...
At the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea on September 20, 1988, American diver...
Anne Hutchinson arrives in the New World
Anne Hutchinson, an Englishwoman who would become an outspoken religious thinker...
Patty Hearst captured by police
Newspaper heiress and wanted fugitive Patty Hearst is captured in a San Francisco...
One million people attend funeral of Mao Zedong
More than one million people gather at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for...
George Steinbrenner's group buys Yankees from CBS
On January 3, 1973, a 12-member group headed by George Steinbrenner purchases the...
5 Miraculous NFL Touchdown Passes
From the 'Immaculate Reception' to the 'Minneapolis Miracle,' here are some of the...
'Games of the Century': 7 of College Football's Most Epic...
The 1966 Notre Dame-Michigan State, 1971 Nebraska-Oklahoma and 1987 Miami-Penn State...
New England Patriots' Doug Flutie makes NFL’s first drop...
On January 1, 2006, following a New England Patriots touchdown against the Miami...
Sidney Crosby wins first NHL game played outdoors in US
On January 1, 2008, with snowflakes falling around him in Buffalo, Pittsburgh Penguins...
Opera star Maria Callas dies
Celebrated soprano Maria Callas dies in Paris at the age of 53. Born in New York...
Mexican War of Independence begins
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launches the Mexican War of Independence...
Mayflower departs England
On September 16, 1620, the Mayflower sails from Plymouth, England, bound for the...
Gunman kills 12 in D.C. Navy Yard massacre
On September 16, 2013, a 34-year-old man goes on a rampage at the Navy Yard in Washington,...
Suspected Christian spy is murdered
Phineas Wilcox is stabbed to death by fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ...
When the Young Lords Put Garbage on Display to Demand Change
In 1969, a group of Puerto Rican youth in East Harlem leveraged a garbage problem...
10 Long-Gone MLB Ballparks With Quirky Features
Houston's Colt Stadium was plagued by mosquitoes and brutal heat. Other ballparks,...
6 of the Wildest Moments from the 1986 New York Mets Championship...
New York's 'traveling rock show' made headlines on and off the field and beat the...
Four Black schoolgirls killed in Birmingham church bombing
On September 15, 1963, a bomb explodes during Sunday morning services in the 16th...
U.S. forces land at Inchon
During the Korean War, U.S. Marines land at Inchon on the west coast of Korea, 100...
Tanks introduced into warfare at the Somme
During the Battle of the Somme, the British launch a major offensive against the...
Tide turns in the Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain reaches its climax when the Royal Air Force (RAF) downs 56...
The Four Seasons earn their first #1 hit with “Sherry”
Frankie Valli (born Francis Casteluccio) had been hard at work trying to become...
Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy
On September 15, 2008, the venerable Wall Street brokerage firm Lehman Brothers...
Occupy Wall Street begins
On September 17, 2011, hundreds of activists gather around Zuccotti Park in lower...
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre: How Fearmongering Led to...
As African Americans achieved economic success in Atlanta in the early 1900s, the...
How Photos from the Battle of Antietam Revealed the American...
Images of the bloodiest battle in U.S. history shocked the public and revealed the...
Fog Bowl: The Most Bizarre Game in NFL History
'I haven’t even driven a car in anything like that,' a player said about the conditions...
How Portugal's Seafaring Expertise Launched the Age of...
In the 15th century, a small kingdom with a population of approximately 1 million...
Canton Bulldogs claim NFL's first title
On December 10, 1922, the Canton Bulldogs defeat the Toledo Maroons, 19-0, and are...
World Anti-Doping Agency accuses Russia of widespread cheating...
On December 9, 2016, the World Anti-Doping Agency details a vast "institutional...
Oprah gives away nearly 300 new cars
On September 13, 2004, TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey gives a brand-new Pontiac...
Israel-Palestine peace accord signed
After decades of bloody animosity, representatives of Israel and Palestine meet...
Massacre at Attica Prison
The four-day revolt at the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo,...
Violence erupts in Boston over desegregation busing
In Boston, Massachusetts, opposition to court-ordered school “busing” turns violent...
Nikita Khrushchev elected Soviet leader
Six months after the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev succeeds...
New floating bridge opens in Seattle; I-90 stretches from...
On September 12, 1993, the rebuilt Lacey V. Murrow Bridge over Lake Washington opens...
Bo Jackson becomes first athlete named to NFL, MLB all-star...
On December 19, 1990, Los Angeles Raiders running back Bo Jackson is named to the...
New York Giants beat Chicago Bears in 'Sneakers Game'
On December 9, 1934, the New York Giants win the NFL championship by beating the...
'Catfish' Hunter becomes MLB's first free agent in modern...
On December 15, 1974, Oakland's Jim "Catfish" Hunter is ruled a free agent by arbitrator...
8 College Football Coaches Who Changed the Game
From Yale's Walter Camp and Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson to Miami's Jimmy Johnson and...
English Civil Wars
Between 1642 and 1651, armies loyal to King Charles I and Parliament faced off in...
5 Iron Age Tools and Innovations
New techniques helped make iron stronger—but there were also innovations in the...
Picasso’s “Guernica” is returned to Spain
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s monumental anti-war mural Guernica is received by...
John Smith elected to lead Jamestown
English adventurer John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia—the...
The Battle of Lake Erie
In the first unqualified defeat of a British naval squadron in history, U.S. Captain...
The guillotine falls silent
At Baumetes Prison in Marseille, France, Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant...
Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is released as a single
You either had to be part of a fairly small subculture of music fans or a professional...
CERN Large Hadron Collider is powered up
On September 10, 2008, scientists successfully flip the switch for the first time...
Pittsburgh Steelers' Franco Harris scores on 'Immaculate...
On December 23, 1972, the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Oakland Raiders, 13-7, on...
Chaminade shocks No. 1 Virginia in one of greatest upsets...
On December 23, 1982, Chaminade, an NAIA school with only 900 students, beats top-ranked...
Aberfan disaster kills 144 people and levels a Welsh mining...
On the morning of October 21, 1966, a landslide of coal waste crashes into a small...
John J. Pershing
General John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing began his rise through the ranks of the...
11 Roman Emperors Who Helped Mold the Ancient World
These rulers were often as innovative and ingenious as they were brutal and corrupt....
Uprising at Attica prison begins
Prisoners seize control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near...
Congress renames the nation “United States of America”
On September 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the...
Elvis Presley makes first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan...
The King of Rock and Roll teams up with TV’s reigning variety program, as Elvis...
NFL nabs New England Patriots in "Spygate" scandal
On September 9, 2007, the NFL catches the New England Patriots illegally videotaping...
When 20-Year-Old Rookie Fernando Valenzuela Captivated...
In 1981, the pitcher from rural Mexico helped lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a...
A Timeline of US-Cuba Relations
Before Fidel Castro and the Cold War chill, America and Cuba shared close economic...
How the South Helped Win the American Revolution
Although not as iconic as those fought in the North, battles waged in the South...
9 of the Most Valuable Baseball Cards in History
Cards of Hall of Famers Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle have sold for...
7 Hard-Fought Battles That Helped Win the American Revolution
While the British were often better equipped and trained, these events proved critical...
New Amsterdam becomes New York
Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland,...
Siege of Leningrad begins
During World War II, German forces begin their siege of Leningrad, a major industrial...
Michelangelo’s statue of David is unveiled to the public
One of the world’s most beloved works art, “David,” the 17-foot-tall, 12,000-pound...
Delano Grape Strike begins
September 8, 1965 marks the beginning of one of the most important strikes in American...
"The Joy Luck Club," the first major studio movie with...
A glass ceiling is smashed on September 8, 1993 with the premiere of The Joy Luck...
Why Isn't Puerto Rico a State?
As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico is neither a state nor an independent country—and...
U.S. agrees to transfer Panama Canal to Panama
In Washington, President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos sign...
Protesters disrupt the Miss America Pageant
On September 7, 1968, 50 women—one representing each state of the United States—prepared...
South African prime minister and architect of apartheid...
South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death by a messenger...
More Israeli hostages killed in Munich
At Furstenfeldbruck air base near Munich, an attempt by West German police to rescue...
Magellan’s expedition circumnavigates globe
One of Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships—the Victoria—arrives at Sanlúcar de Barrameda...
First Continental Congress convenes
In response to the British Parliament’s enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American...
Sam Houston elected as president of Texas
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Sioux military leader Crazy Horse is killed
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