Significant events that happened on this day.
This infamous denial came during a White House event, with Hillary Clinton standing nearby. The statement became one of the most memorable presidentia...
The album, recorded in just three weekend sessions for £4,000, became one of the most influential punk albums of all time. It featured raw, politicall...
Vesna Vulović was working on JAT Flight 367 when a briefcase bomb detonated over Czechoslovakia. She fell inside a section of the fuselage that crash-...
The innovative format allowed 418 reporters to ask questions directly, and millions of Americans watched from home. Kennedy's telegenic personality an...
These were the VII Olympic Winter Games, and broadcasts reached 22 countries across Europe. The Soviet Union made its Winter Olympic debut and immedia...
Though India gained independence from Britain in 1947, it became a fully sovereign republic on this date when its constitution came into effect. Dr. R...
Baird's mechanical television system successfully transmitted moving images of a ventriloquist's dummy named 'Stooky Bill' in his laboratory. This gro...
Weighing an astounding 3,106 carats (about 1.37 pounds), the diamond was found at the Premier Mine. It was later cut into nine major stones and 96 sma...
Before this invention, dentists used hand-cranked drills or even bow drills similar to those used for starting fires. Green's electric drill made dent...
This numerical coincidence delights math nerds and trivia enthusiasts to this day. Michigan was admitted as a free state as part of the political bala...
The initial appropriation was just $5,000 to purchase books and create a library room in the Capitol. Today, the Library of Congress is the largest li...
Captain Arthur Phillip led eleven ships carrying over 1,000 people, including 736 convicts, to establish a British penal colony. This date is now cele...
Franklin wrote that the eagle had 'bad moral character' and was 'a rank coward' that steals food from other birds. He praised the turkey as 'a much mo...
The Cascadia earthquake, estimated at magnitude 8.7-9.2, struck the Cascadia subduction zone. The resulting tsunami devastated the coast and was so po...
