Significant events that happened on this day.
The law allows posthumous marriages if one partner dies after wedding preparations have begun and there's evidence the deceased wanted to marry. The c...
The wedding was postponed by one day so Charles could attend Pope John Paul II's funeral. It was the first time a member of the royal family had a civ...
The televised event became one of the most iconic images of the Iraq War, symbolizing the fall of Hussein's regime. A U.S. Marine briefly draped an Am...
Noriega was the first foreign head of state to be convicted in a U.S. court. He had once been a CIA asset before his relationship with the U.S. deteri...
Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the mechanical device in Haskell Karp, who lived for 65 hours until a donor heart became available. The experimental proce...
His photograph captured South Vietnamese General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in the street. The brutal image became one of the mos...
The seven military test pilots were selected from 110 candidates to compete for the honor of being the first American in space. Their names became hou...
Starring Vincent Price, it was the first color 3D film from a major studio. The gimmick was so effective that theaters had to post nurses on standby,...
Named after actress and director Antoinette Perry, only 11 awards were given out that first year. The ceremony wasn't broadcast until 1967, but it has...
Denmark surrendered within six hours, making it one of the shortest military campaigns in history. Norway resisted for two months but eventually fell,...
The Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let Anderson perform at their venue because she was Black. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned f...
His invention revolutionized food preservation and military rations. The process involved evaporating milk to a powder form that could be reconstitute...
After four years of bloody conflict, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was surrounded and exhausted. The surrender terms were generous, allowing Confede...
He sang 'Au Clair de la Lune' into his phonautograph, a device that traced sound waves onto paper covered in soot. The recording wasn't actually playe...
Founded by Richard Allen in Philadelphia, the church was established in response to racial discrimination in white Methodist churches. It grew to beco...
