Significant events that happened on this day.
The contest promised an iPhone 7 to the first person who would legally change their name to match the phone. The winner completed all legal paperwork...
The process began just two years after her death in 1999, bypassing the usual five-year waiting period. The ceremony in St. Peter's Square required th...
The crudely animated 'Good Night' short introduced America to Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The characters looked drastically different from t...
The automotive entrepreneur behind the iconic DeLorean sports car was caught on videotape allegedly agreeing to traffic $24 million worth of cocaine t...
Environmental groups had fought for 17 months to keep the Concorde out of JFK airport, claiming its sonic booms would shatter windows and terrorize ne...
King was sentenced to four months of hard labor for a minor traffic violation while at the sit-in. JFK's phone call to Coretta Scott King expressing c...
Just months after taking power, Hitler pulled Germany out of the League of Nations in protest of international arms limitations. This dramatic move sh...
Over 600,000 soldiers clashed in what became known as the 'Battle of Nations.' Napoleon's defeat forced his retreat from Germany and marked the beginn...
General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of nearly 8,000 British soldiers to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia. Legend has it that the Br...
This royal marriage created the foundation for modern Spain and financed Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas. The couple would later become...
