The hungry customer called emergency services multiple times to complain that his Chinese takeout wasn't hot enough, tying up dispatchers who tried to...
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia after weeks of protests, becoming the first Arab leader toppled by popular uprising in decades....
After a seven-year journey aboard the Cassini spacecraft, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe successfully touched down on Saturn's largest moon...
In a technical decision, the Court dismissed the case on standing rather than ruling on the constitutional merits. The case had been brought by atheis...
Roy Sullivan, a U.S. park ranger, was struck by lightning for an unprecedented seventh time and lived to tell about it. His previous strikes had burne...
Following her father King Frederik IX's death, Margrethe became Denmark's first queen regnant in 560 years. She was only able to inherit the throne be...
An estimated 30,000 hippies gathered in Golden Gate Park for a day of music, poetry, and counterculture celebration that defined the 1960s. Timothy Le...
The glamorous Hollywood star married the Yankees icon in a simple civil ceremony at City Hall, creating one of the most famous celebrity couples of al...
Hosted by Dave Garroway, the first episode of Today aired and revolutionized morning broadcasting. The show initially struggled to find advertisers wh...
FDR flew to Casablanca, Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill during World War II, breaking the precedent that sitting presidents shouldn't fly. The...
Bell's telephone was publicly demonstrated for the first time, transmitting voices over telegraph wires between New Haven and Middletown, Connecticut....
The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War with Great Britain. This made American independe...
Arnold would go on to become a successful general for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War before switching sides and attempting to surre...
