Significant events that happened on this day.
The baby girl was delivered with the help of a nurse passenger while the plane was over the Atlantic Ocean. The airline rewarded her dramatic entrance...
At age 70, the Queen embraced the internet age by clicking a computer mouse to launch the monarchy's official online presence. The site featured royal...
This infamous virus was programmed to activate on Michelangelo's birthday and overwrite hard drive data. Despite massive media panic, the actual damag...
After 19 years, 'the most trusted man in America' signed off with his famous phrase, 'And that's the way it is.' He had reported everything from JFK's...
She walked into the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, and requested asylum, shocking the world. Her defection was a major propaganda victory for the W...
Led by Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's independence from Britain sparked a wave of decolonization across Africa. Within a decade, over 30 African nations would...
The couple was accused of espionage during the height of Cold War paranoia. They were convicted and executed in 1953, becoming the only U.S. civilians...
Clarence Birdseye revolutionized food preservation with his quick-freezing process. The first items sold included peas, spinach, raspberries, loganber...
Originally derived from willow bark, aspirin became one of the world's most widely used medications. The name 'aspirin' comes from 'a' for acetyl, 'sp...
This infamous ruling declared that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal terr...
One of history's greatest artists and sculptors entered the world on this day. He would go on to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling and create the iconi...
The dwarf planet Ceres, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, baffled scientists when NASA's Dawn spacecraft photographed mysterious bright spots on its surface in 2015. The gleaming patches sparked wild theories—from ice volcanoes to alien bases—before researchers discovered they were actually salt deposits left behind by briny water seeping up from an underground ocean.