Significant events that happened on this day.
The Indonesian electronics chain promised a free iPhone 7 to anyone named 'iPhone' who could prove it with legal documents. After 30-year-old Muhammad...
The Argentine cardinal became the first pope from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in over 1,200 years. He chose the name Francis in hon...
Connecting Honshu and Hokkaido islands, the 33.5-mile tunnel took 24 years to construct and cost $3.6 billion. It stretches 14.3 miles under the seabe...
Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart completed a crucial 10-day mission that proved the lunar module could separate from the...
In one of the strangest postal mishaps, Mrs. Slocum dozed off inside a large shipping crate while packing items. Her family unknowingly sealed and mai...
Vietnamese forces under General Vo Nguyen Giap launched a massive assault on the isolated French base in northwestern Vietnam. The 57-day siege involv...
The 23-year-old astronomer had been systematically photographing the night sky when he noticed a moving object in images taken in January. The announc...
The Tennessee state legislature enacted a law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of mankind's origin. This law led d...
A man named Henry Wells crashed his electric-powered vehicle into a bicyclist in New York City, marking what may have been the first automobile-bicycl...
Johnson became the first U.S. president to be impeached, charged with violating the Tenure of Office Act by removing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. T...
British astronomer William Herschel spotted Uranus through his telescope in Bath, England, becoming the first person to discover a planet using a tele...
