Significant events that happened on this day.
The Swedish Academy honored Dylan 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,' sparking immediate controversy...
After being trapped 2,300 feet below ground, the miners were pulled to the surface one by one in a specially-designed capsule called 'Phoenix.' The re...
In a significant Cold War-era moment, senators voted 51-48 against the treaty that would have banned all nuclear weapons testing. The rejection embarr...
In an embarrassing moment during the Games, heavy rain put out the Olympic cauldron at Seoul's main stadium. A stadium worker used a cigarette lighter...
David Lean's epic biographical drama about T.E. Lawrence premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square with a runtime of 222 minutes. The film would go on t...
Flying the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over California's Mojave Desert, Yeager reached Mach 1.07 (700 mph) at 45,000 feet. Remarkably, he did t...
Just weeks after overthrowing Mussolini and signing an armistice with the Allies, Italy officially joined the war against its former Axis partner. Thi...
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk moved the capital from the historic city of Istanbul to the more centrally-located Ankara as part of his modernization reforms....
This best-of-nine series marked the beginning of championship play between the American and National Leagues. Boston won five games to three, and it w...
Representatives from 25 nations voted to make Greenwich the zero point for longitude, standardizing timekeeping globally. France abstained from voting...
Twelve German-Jewish immigrants gathered in a lower Manhattan café to establish what would become a major international organization. Originally forme...
President George Washington presided over the ceremony marking the beginning of construction on what would become the executive mansion. The building...
On Friday, October 13, French authorities simultaneously arrested hundreds of Templars across the country in a coordinated dawn raid. The knights were...
