| 2024-09-21 |
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit Is Published (1937) |
|
|
| 2024-09-20 |
Saladin Begins Siege of Jerusalem (1187) |
|
|
| 2024-09-18 |
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Is Formed (1998) |
|
|
| 2024-09-17 |
US Constitution Signed in Philadelphia (1787) |
|
|
| 2024-09-16 |
Mayflower Sets Sail for New England (1620) |
|
|
| 2024-09-15 |
Steam Locomotive John Bull Operates for the First Time (1831) |
|
|
| 2024-09-14 |
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Founded (1960) |
|
|
| 2024-09-13 |
Michelangelo Begins Carving His Statue of David (1501) |
|
|
| 2024-09-12 |
Elizabeth Barrett Elopes with Robert Browning (1846) |
|
|
| 2024-09-10 |
The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (1547) |
|
|
| 2024-09-09 |
Elvis Presley Appears on The Ed Sullivan Show (1956) |
|
|
| 2024-09-08 |
American Pledge of Allegiance First Published (1892) |
|
|
| 2024-09-07 |
First Miss America Pageant Held in Atlantic City, New Jersey (1921) |
|
|
| 2024-09-06 |
Leningrad's Name Reverts to Saint Petersburg (1991) |
|
|
| 2024-09-05 |
Sam Houston Elected First President of Texas (1836) |
|
|
| 2024-09-04 |
George Eastman Receives a Patent for His Kodak Camera (1888) |
|
|
| 2024-09-03 |
Anne Frank and Family Deported to Auschwitz (1944) |
|
|
| 2024-09-02 |
CBS Evening News Expands to Half Hour (1963) |
|
|
| 2024-09-01 |
Germany Invades Poland (1939) |
|
|
| 2024-08-31 |
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997) |
|
|
| 2024-08-30 |
The Battle of Tannenberg Ends (1914) |
|
|
| 2024-08-29 |
US Air Force Nuclear Weapons Incident (2007) |
|
|
| 2024-08-28 |
Caleb Davis Bradham Begins Selling "Pepsi-Cola" (1898) |
|
|
| 2024-08-27 |
Mars Makes Its Closest Approach to Earth in Nearly 60,000 Years (2003) |
|
|
| 2024-08-26 |
National Assembly of Quebec Adopts the Charter of the French Language (1977) |
|
|
| 2024-08-25 |
WWII: The Liberation of Paris (1944) |
|
|
| 2024-08-24 |
Pluto Gets Demoted (2006) |
|
|
| 2024-08-23 |
Sacco and Vanzetti Are Executed (1927) |
|
|
| 2024-08-22 |
The Battle of Bosworth Field (1485) |
|
|
| 2024-08-21 |
Mona Lisa Stolen by a Louvre Employee (1911) |
|
|
| 2024-08-20 |
The Big Burn (1910) |
|
|
| 2024-08-19 |
American Outlaw John Wesley Hardin Shot Dead (1895) |
|
|
| 2024-08-18 |
The Lost Colony: The Colony of Roanoke Is Found Deserted (1590) |
|
|
| 2024-08-17 |
Michael Phelps Wins Record-Breaking Eight Gold Medals (2008) |
|
|
| 2024-08-16 |
Joseph Kittinger Parachutes from a Balloon at 102,800 feet (31,300 m) (1960) |
|
|
| 2024-08-15 |
Foundation Stone Laid for Cologne Cathedral in Germany (1248) |
|
|
| 2024-08-14 |
The Battle of Aljubarrota (1385) |
|
|
| 2024-08-13 |
Opha Mae Johnson Becomes First Woman to Enlist in the US Marine Corps (1918) |
|
|
| 2024-08-12 |
Night of the Murdered Poets (1952) |
|
|
| 2024-08-11 |
Weimar Constitution Signed into Law (1919) |
|
|
| 2024-08-10 |
Pueblo Revolt Begins (1680) |
|
|
| 2024-08-09 |
"Fat Man" Detonated over Nagasaki, Japan (1945) |
|
|
| 2024-08-08 |
8888 Popular Uprising (1988) |
|
|
| 2024-08-07 |
United States Embassy Bombings (1998) |
|
|
| 2024-08-06 |
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov Becomes First Man to Spend a Day in Space (1961) |
|
|
| 2024-08-05 |
The Battle of Dogger Bank (1781) |
|
|
| 2024-08-04 |
Greenwich Foot Tunnel Opens (1902) |
|
|
| 2024-08-03 |
US Senate Ratifies the Antiballistic Missile Treaty (1972) |
|
|
| 2024-08-02 |
Potsdam Conference Concludes (1945) |
|
|
| 2024-08-01 |
MTV Is Launched (1981) |
|
|
| 2024-07-31 |
Spanish Treasure Fleet Sinks off Florida Coast in Hurricane (1715) |
|
|
| 2024-07-30 |
WWI: Black Tom Explosion (1916) |
|
|
| 2024-07-29 |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Established (1958) |
|
|
| 2024-07-28 |
Summer Jam at Watkins Glen (1973) |
|
|
| 2024-07-27 |
Centennial Olympic Park Bombing (1996) |
|
|
| 2024-07-26 |
The Battle of Edgecote Moor (1469) |
|
|
| 2024-07-25 |
Svetlana Savitskaya Becomes the First Woman to Perform a Spacewalk (1984) |
|
|
| 2024-07-24 |
Hiram Bingham III Locates Machu Picchu (1911) |
|
|
| 2024-07-23 |
The "Gimli Glider": Air Canada Flight Runs Out of Fuel Mid-Flight (1983) |
|
|
| 2024-07-22 |
The Battle of Falkirk (1298) |
|
|
| 2024-07-21 |
Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man to Walk on the Moon (1969) |
|
|
| 2024-07-20 |
King Abdullah I of Jordan Is Assassinated (1951) |
|
|
| 2024-07-19 |
WWI: Battle of Fromelles Begins (1916) |
|
|
| 2024-07-18 |
La Cantuta Massacre (1992) |
|
|
| 2024-07-17 |
Napalm Incendiary Bombs Dropped for First Time by US Air Force (1944) |
|
|
| 2024-07-16 |
Saddam Hussein Becomes President of Iraq (1979) |
|
|
| 2024-07-15 |
Fire Ravages Rome's Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (1823) |
|
|
| 2024-07-14 |
The Darién Scheme: Ships Leave Scotland for Isthmus of Panama (1698) |
|
|
| 2024-07-13 |
New York Draft Riots (1863) |
|
|
| 2024-07-12 |
French National Assembly Adopts Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790) |
|
|
| 2024-07-11 |
The Los Alfaques Disaster (1978) |
|
|
| 2024-07-10 |
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) Formed (2000) |
|
|
| 2024-07-09 |
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans Exhibition Opens (1962) |
|
|
| 2024-07-08 |
Vasco da Gama Sets Sail on First Direct European Voyage to India (1497) |
|
|
| 2024-07-07 |
Mary Surratt Hanged for Role in Lincoln Assassination (1865) |
|
|
| 2024-07-06 |
Explosion and Fire Destroy Piper Alpha Drilling Platform (1988) |
|
|
| 2024-07-05 |
Dolly, the First Cloned Sheep, Is Born (1996) |
|
|
| 2024-07-04 |
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Published (1855) |
|
|
| 2024-07-03 |
Quebec City Founded by Samuel de Champlain (1608) |
|
|
| 2024-07-02 |
US President Lyndon B. Johnson Signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964) |
|
|
| 2024-07-01 |
Russian State Library Founded (1862) |
|
|
| 2024-06-30 |
Charles Julius Guiteau, Assassin of US President James A. Garfield, Hanged (1882) |
|
|
| 2024-06-29 |
Two Car Bombs Discovered in London (2007) |
|
|
| 2024-06-28 |
Romania Cedes Bessarabia to the USSR (1940) |
|
|
| 2024-06-27 |
Air France Flight 139 Hijacked (1976) |
|
|
| 2024-06-26 |
Conquistador Francisco Pizarro Killed (1541) |
|
|
| 2024-06-25 |
Korean War Begins (1950) |
|
|
| 2024-06-24 |
One of the First Major Outbreaks of St. John's Dance (1374) |
|
|
| 2024-06-23 |
Glassboro Summit Conference Begins (1967) |
|
|
| 2024-06-22 |
HMS Victoria Accidentally Rammed and Sunk (1893) |
|
|
| 2024-06-21 |
US Captures Guam from Spain (1898) |
|
|
| 2024-06-20 |
The Tennis Court Oath (1789) |
|
|
| 2024-06-19 |
The First Father's Day (1910) |
|
|
| 2024-06-18 |
Li Yuan Becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang (618 CE) |
|
|
| 2024-06-17 |
The Night Attack (1462) |
|
|
| 2024-06-16 |
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova Becomes First Woman in Space (1963) |
|
|
| 2024-06-15 |
King John of England Signs the Magna Carta (1215) |
|
|
| 2024-06-14 |
Vatican Abolishes Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1966) |
|
|
| 2024-06-13 |
The New York Times Begins Publication of the Pentagon Papers (1971) |
|
|
| 2024-06-12 |
Ronald Reagan Challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear Down This Wall" (1987) |
|
|
