Significant events that happened on this day.
Justin Timberlake tore off part of Jackson's costume at the end of their performance, revealing her breast for 9/16ths of a second to 90 million viewe...
The disaster occurred just 16 minutes before Columbia was scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center. A piece of foam insulation that broke off during...
Christophe Rogeau was granted permission to marry his deceased fiancée Magali Jaskiewicz, who had died in a car accident. French law allows posthumous...
Gillooly, the ex-husband of rival skater Tonya Harding, had hired a hitman to break Kerrigan's leg six weeks earlier at the U.S. Championships. The bi...
An estimated 5 million people lined the streets of Tehran to welcome him. Within weeks, the 2,500-year-old Iranian monarchy was abolished and replaced...
The students—Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil—were refused service but remained seated until closing. Their peacefu...
The Hungarian Parliament officially ended the Kingdom of Hungary, which had existed in various forms for over 900 years. This marked the formal transi...
The RCMP was created by merging the Royal Northwest Mounted Police with the Dominion Police. Today, it's Canada's national police force and one of the...
Drivers had to provide their own plates with their initials on them—there were no state-issued plates yet. The first standardized, state-issued licens...
The tar-paper-covered building could rotate on circular tracks to follow the sun, as early film required intense natural light. It cost $637.67 to bui...
The area was just farmland at the time—the film industry wouldn't arrive for another 20 years. Legend says Wilcox's wife Daeida came up with the name...
Editor James Murray and his team had worked through only words beginning with A, B, C, and part of D—just one volume of what would eventually become a...
The inaugural session was anticlimactic—only three of the six justices showed up, and there were no cases to hear. Chief Justice John Jay presided ove...
