Significant events that happened on this day.
After searching for 16 years off the Florida Keys, Fisher's team finally located the mother lode of gold, silver, and emeralds from the 1622 shipwreck...
The first bomb targeted the Household Cavalry during their daily ceremony, killing four soldiers and seven horses. Two hours later, a second bomb expl...
After a 10-month journey from Earth, Viking 1 sent back the first close-up photographs of the Martian surface. The lander operated for over six years,...
At 10:56 PM EDT, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and spoke the famous words, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind....
The revolutionary sketch comedy show debuted with its bizarre blend of surreal humor, animation, and complete disregard for traditional comedy formats...
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb in a briefcase during a meeting at Hitler's Wolf's Lair headquarters. The bomb exploded, killing four pe...
The first number-one song was "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra. This chart revolutionized the music industry by providing a...
Dr. Ernst Pfenning became Ford's first customer, receiving a two-cylinder car that could reach the blazing speed of 30 mph. Ford had only incorporated...
The Football Association reluctantly voted to allow players to be paid, ending years of bitter conflict between northern working-class clubs and south...
After five years of exile in Canada following the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull returned to the United States with his starving band of follo...
After several failed attempts, including a cable that worked for only three weeks in 1858, the SS Great Eastern successfully laid a telegraph cable fr...
The citizens of Bogotá staged what became known as the "Cry of Independence" and formed a governing junta, but Spain didn't take the hint. What follow...
Francesco Petrarca spent decades writing hundreds of sonnets about his idealized love Laura, whom he first glimpsed in a church in 1327. Despite only...
