Significant events that happened on this day.
The 85-year-old voter had kept his sticker from Bill Clinton's election for 26 years. Poll workers were amused and let him wear it despite rules again...
What should have been Election Day became the start of a constitutional crisis involving hanging chads, butterfly ballots, and the Florida recount. Th...
The Bugatti Type 57S Atalante was found covered in dust in a British garage, having been stored since 1946. Despite being completely unrestored and co...
At age 32 and the height of his career, Johnson shocked the world with his press conference. His announcement helped destigmatize HIV/AIDS and proved...
In a landslide victory over George McGovern, Nixon won 49 states, flipping the traditionally Democratic South to Republican. This election marked the...
Nicknamed 'Galloping Gertie,' the suspension bridge dramatically twisted and undulated in 40 mph winds before plunging into Puget Sound. The only casu...
MoMA began in six rooms on the 12th floor of an office building with just nine exhibitions. Today it houses over 200,000 works of modern and contempor...
Lenin and the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd, overthrowing the provisional government. The confusing name comes from Russia still u...
Donald Smith hammered in the final spike connecting Eastern and Western Canada after years of grueling construction through mountains and wilderness....
Thomas Nast published a cartoon in Harper's Weekly showing an elephant labeled 'The Republican Vote' being scared by a donkey in lion's clothing. The...
She would become the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two different sciences, and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two...
This battle in present-day Indiana became so famous that Harrison rode it all the way to the presidency 29 years later with the campaign slogan 'Tippe...
Originally called The Oxford Gazette, it was started when Charles II's court fled to Oxford during the Great Plague. It's still published today and re...
Weighing 127 kilograms, it's the oldest meteorite fall with an exact date that's been preserved. A young boy witnessed it crash into a wheat field wit...
