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261 years ago today, former Virginia governor and revolutionary Patrick Henry was not only born, but used his 29th Birthday as an occasion to deliver a rousing speech is response t...
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
180 years ago today, the Associated Press organized in New York City as a nonprofit news cooperative to reduce the cost of covering the events of the Mexican American War. The orig...
30-Scholars estimate for the crucifixion of Jesus by Roman troops in Jerusalem (or April 3) 529-First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis or the Justinian Code (a fundamental work in jur...
79 years ago today, years before the Civil Rights Movement gained prominence in the news, Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier becoming the first black player on any Majo...
Today is the 56th anniversary of Earth Day. Created at a time when water and air pollution were out of control—20 million Americans in colleges, schools, and communities observed t...
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59 years ago today, Marvin Gaye finished recording “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” one of the hottest singles in Motown history, for his then upcoming album In the Groove. Writ...
50 years ago today, the April 5th Incident (known as the Tiananmen Square protest) helped pave the way for the end of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, and with it, Maoist communis...
60 years ago marked the first Groundation Day, now celebrated every year on April 21st, when hundreds of thousands of Rastafari celebrate the arrival of Emperor Haile Selassie in J...
73 years ago today, two men were rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell into the Sacramento River. At the same time, amateur p...
40 years ago today, the Hands Across America fundraising event was held, hoping to create a human chain across the entire country. Hosted over Memorial Day weekend, the hope was to...
20 years ago, the US Navy created what would become known as “The Great Carrier Reef,” after the USS Oriskany, a long-unused aircraft carrier commissioned after World War II was de...
81 years ago today, the Third Reich surrendered Berlin, the Wehrmacht surrendered in mass, and World War II ended in the West as more than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surr...
200 years ago today, Frederic Edwin Church, one of the foremost painters in the American landscape movement known as the Hudson River School, was born. His absolutely stunning depi...
161 years ago today, the American Civil War ended when Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to General Ulysses Grant and the Union Army. The moment was the f...
106 years ago today, the Smithsonian Museums in the nation’s capital held the first of its Great Debate series, with the topic being whether spiral galaxies and nebulae were relati...
1864-Battle of Gate PДЃ (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched MДЃori warriors in Tauranga 1872-Jesse...
1492-Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spanish monarchs King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I to find the "Indies" with the stated goal of converting people to...
94 years ago today, one of Europe’s greatest landscape engineering projects, the Afsuiltdijk, was completed in the Netherlands, proving that newly-mechanized Man could tame not onl...
1536-Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason 1643-Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticu...
92 years ago today, Dame Jane Goodall was born. The beloved British primatologist first observed chimpanzees creating tools in 1960 (and 2 years earlier had been a secretary). It w...
Happy 85th Birthday to Bob Dylan, the Bard of our ‘(Forever) Young’ generation. Born Robert Zimmerman in Minnesota, Dylan renamed himself after the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. The si...
251 years ago today, a shot rang out in Lexington, Massachusetts, that’s often called the one “heard round the world.” It marked the start of a skirmish leading to the American Rev...
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