On this day in 1957, 15-year-old Paul McCartney attends a church picnic in the village of Woolton, near Liverpool, where he meets 16-year-ol...

Film actor, director, and producer Leslie Howard was best known for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind. Haha that's funny ...

In a widely publicized episode of ABC's comedy Ellen, TV character Ellen Morgan, played by Ellen DeGeneres, announces that she is gay. T...

In the skies over France, Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German flying ace known as "The Red Baron," is killed by Allied fi...

African-American dancer Josephine Baker dies on this day in 1975. Baker, born in 1906 in St. Louis, was stranded in Paris in 1925 when a sho...

The soundtrack of The Graduate, which features Simon and Garfunkel's song "Mrs. Robinson," is presented with the Grammy for Be...

On February 12, 1999, the five-week impeachment trial of Bill Clinton comes to an end, with the Senate voting to acquit the president on bot...

February 10, 1899 Herbert Hoover marries Lou Henry On this day in 1899, future President Herbert Hoover marries his fellow Stanford Universi...

Perhaps the most influential musical group of all time, the Beatles make their last public performance on this day in 1969, giving an improm...

At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on he...

Young country-rock singer Elvis Presley makes his first-ever television appearance on the TV musical-variety program Stage Show on this day...

On January 27, 1888, the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., for "the increase and diffusion of geographical kn...

On this day in 1957, machines at the Wham-O toy company roll out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs--now...

The Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion by handing down their decision in the case of Roe v. Wade . Despite opponents' characterizatio...

On this day in 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during ...

On this day, Ilse Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Ge...

Chubby Checker's hit "The Twist" becomes the first song to reach the No. 1 spot twice in two years. "The Twist" had ...

On January 9, 1972, the 24-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leads the Milwaukee Bucks in a 120-104 victory over Wilt Chamberlain and the Los Ang...

From The History Channel Website American mogul William Randolph Hearst, owner of the Hearst newspaper chain, forbids any of his newspapers ...

In 1838 Samuel Morse demonstrates his telegraph system for the first time in New Jersey In 1912 New Mexico Joins the Union In 1919 Theodore ...