History
On this day in History - May 20 Paid Members Public
1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in... 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for... 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing...
On this day in History - May 13 Paid Members Public
1950 – The inaugural Formula One World Championship race takes place at... 1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnav... 1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Ev...
On this day in History - May 6 Paid Members Public
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially... 1915 – Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his... 1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to ru...
On this day in History - April 29 Paid Members Public
1974 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release... 2004 – The final Oldsmobile is built in...
On this day in History - April 22 Paid Members Public
1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live... 1970 – The first Earth...
On this day in History - April 15 Paid Members Public
1912 – British passenger line sinks in the North Atlantic... 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn 2013 – Two bombs explode near the...
On this day in History - April 8 Paid Members Public
April 08 1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war... 1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of... 2008 – The construction of the world’s first skyscraper...
On this day in History - April 1 Paid Members Public
April 01 1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for... 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air... 1937 – The Royal New Zealand Air Force is... 1949 – The Government of Canada repeals...
On this day in History - March 25 Paid Members Public
1655 – Saturn’s largest moon... 1807 – ...the first passenger-carrying railway in the world. 1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle..
On this day in History - March 18 Paid Members Public
1874 – The Hawaiian Kingdom signs a treaty with the... 1944 – Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying...
On this day in History - March 11 Paid Members Public
1990 – Lithuania declares independence from the... 2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares...
On this day in History - March 4 Paid Members Public
1882 – Britain’s first electric... 1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes under...
On this day in History - February 26 Paid Members Public
February 26 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes... 1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is... 1980 – Egypt and Israel establish...
On this day in History - February 19 Paid Members Public
1954 – Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders... 1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique reawakens... 1968 – Mister Roger’s Neighborhood made..
On this day in History - February 12 Paid Members Public
1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the... 1994 – Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch’s iconic painting... 2004 – The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex...
On this day in History - February 5 Paid Members Public
1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of... 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of...
