Significant events that happened on this day.
The former Russian president's death marked the end of an era. His state funeral mixed Orthodox Christian traditions with Soviet-era military honors i...
Co-founder Jawed Karim posted an 18-second clip titled 'Me at the zoo' showing him standing in front of elephants. The underwhelming video would mark...
The decision sparked massive public outrage and became one of the biggest marketing blunders in history. The backlash was so intense that Coca-Cola br...
Dr. Barney Clark received the Jarvik-7 artificial heart at the University of Utah Medical Center. He lived for nearly four months with a compressed ai...
Over 1,000 students seized five buildings including the president's office, holding a dean hostage for 24 hours. The week-long occupation became one o...
The 20-year-old Milwaukee Braves outfielder launched his first career homer off St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Vic Raschi. Aaron would go on to break Bab...
The fall of the Nationalist capital marked a turning point in the Chinese Civil War. Chiang Kai-shek's government retreated to Taiwan, setting up the...
The audience at Koster and Bial's Music Hall watched projected moving images of waves crashing and a dancer performing. Some patrons in the front row...
The elaborate coronation ended 11 years of republican rule under Oliver Cromwell. Charles famously hid in an oak tree to escape Cromwell's forces duri...
The exact date is debated, but April 23 is traditionally celebrated as the Bard's birthday. He would go on to invent over 1,700 words still used in En...
Legend says it was inspired when the king retrieved a garter dropped by the Countess of Salisbury at a ball and declared 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' (...
