Significant events that happened on this day.
Two women approached him and smeared the deadly chemical weapon on his face, believing they were participating in a prank TV show. He died within minu...
The six-time Grammy winner drowned due to the effects of chronic cocaine use and heart disease, with authorities finding drugs in the hotel room. Trag...
The historic apology addressed government policies from 1909-1969 that forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families to assimilate them int...
Though Dolly was actually born in July 1996, the groundbreaking achievement was revealed to the world on this date. Named after Dolly Parton, the shee...
The Al-Amiriyah shelter bombing during the Gulf War became one of the most controversial incidents of the conflict. U.S. officials believed it was a m...
The unlikely team from a tropical nation with no bobsled tradition captured hearts worldwide despite finishing last. Their story inspired the 1993 com...
The Nobel Prize-winning author's exposé of the Soviet forced labor camp system enraged authorities. He was arrested, stripped of Soviet citizenship, a...
Code-named 'Gerboise Bleue' (Blue Jerboa), the plutonium bomb made France the world's fourth nuclear power. The blast was about four times more powerf...
Despite winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for co-inventing the transistor (which revolutionized electronics), Shockley's later years were consumed by...
The famous astronomer was summoned to defend his support of the Copernican theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Despite overwhelming evidenc...