Significant events that happened on this day.
The 'devices' were actually battery-powered Light-Brite style signs promoting the TV show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The marketing stunt cost the network...
Over 30,000 Russians lined up for hours to taste their first Big Mac, making it the busiest McDonald's opening ever. The event symbolized the thawing...
The finale was watched by an estimated 100 million Americans, setting records and becoming a cultural phenomenon. The series about an African-American...
Ham's 16-minute suborbital flight tested whether tasks could be performed in space before risking human astronauts. He survived the journey, though hi...
Just months after the Soviet Union's Sputnik shocked the world, the U.S. entered the space race with Explorer 1. The satellite discovered the Van Alle...
This decision escalated the nuclear arms race to terrifying new levels, as the H-bomb was theoretically 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb...
Robinson would go on to become the first African-American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947....
This federal deadline marked a dark turning point in U.S.-Native relations. Those who didn't comply were deemed 'hostile' and subject to military acti...
After the Senate had passed it in April 1864, the House finally secured the two-thirds majority needed. President Lincoln called it a "King's cure" fo...
This groundbreaking institution was the world's first hospital dedicated to treating sexually transmitted diseases. At a time when such conditions wer...