Significant events that happened on this day.
The eruption sent massive ash clouds into the atmosphere, halting flights and stranding millions of passengers worldwide. News anchors hilariously str...
Scientists announced they had successfully mapped 99% of the human genome with 99.99% accuracy. The project involved researchers from six countries an...
Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen landed at Edwards Air Force Base after two days in orbit, proving the shuttle concept worked. Columbia was th...
While not the absolute first streaker, this incident helped spark a nationwide streaking craze that peaked in the mid-1970s. College campuses across A...
Steinbeck's novel about Dust Bowl migrants became an instant classic and won the Pulitzer Prize. The book was so controversial that it was banned and...
A massive black blizzard of dust traveled at 60 mph, turning day into night and burying homes and farms. The storm removed twice as much earth as was...
The supposedly 'unsinkable' luxury liner hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The collision created a series of hole...
Taft started the tradition at a Washington Senators game, throwing the ball from his seat to pitcher Walter Johnson. The 300-pound president was a big...
Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope parlor opened on Broadway, featuring ten machines showing short films for 25 cents. Viewers looked through a peephole to w...
Lincoln was watching the play 'Our American Cousin' with his wife when actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential bo...
Webster's dictionary contained 70,000 words and took him 27 years to complete. He learned 26 languages to research word origins and deliberately creat...
The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first organization dedicated to ending slavery in America. Franklin beca...
Residents of Nuremberg, Germany reported seeing a bizarre aerial battle in the morning sky involving hundreds of spheres, cylinders, and crosses. A lo...
