Significant events that happened on this day.
The landing at Kennedy Space Center marked the end of an era that saw 135 missions, deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, and built the International S...
The former Bosnian Serb leader had been living openly in Belgrade under the alias Dr. Dragan Dabić, practicing alternative medicine with a long beard...
This Soviet research station holds the record for the lowest directly measured temperature on Earth. At these extreme temperatures, human breath insta...
This massive engineering project created Lake Nasser, one of the world's largest artificial lakes, and controls the annual flooding of the Nile River....
At 2:56 UTC, Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and spoke the famous words, 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.' Aldrin...
Named after the SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, this revolutionary cargo ship could travel 336,000 miles without refueling. De...
The high school teacher was fined $100 for violating the Butler Act, which prohibited teaching evolution in state-funded schools. The sensational tria...
This engineering marvel took 13 years to build and remains the longest railway line in the world. The complete journey takes about seven days, crosses...
Founded by sugar magnate Henry Tate, who donated his collection of British art and funded the building, the gallery started with just 65 paintings. To...
Confederate forces defeated Union troops near Manassas, Virginia, shocking Northerners who had expected a quick victory. Spectators from Washington DC...
The German prince was chosen to lead the newly independent nation and swore allegiance to the Belgian constitution. Interestingly, he had previously t...
Napoleon famously told his troops, 'Soldiers, forty centuries look down upon you,' referring to the nearby pyramids. The French forces used superior t...
