Significant events that happened on this day.
Brown achieved this rare feat against the Chicago Bears, returning a kickoff 88 yards and a punt 85 yards for touchdowns. Despite his heroics, the Rai...
Using radar imaging, Magellan mapped 98% of Venus's surface over four years, revealing volcanic features, impact craters, and mountains. The spacecraf...
The Civil Liberties Act apologized for the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans and provided $20,000 to each surviving internee. Reagan called the...
The capture ended a year-long reign of terror that gripped New York. Berkowitz was caught because of a parking ticket issued near the last crime scene...
Originally a radio show called "Candid Microphone," it became TV's first reality show and pioneered the hidden camera format. The show's catchphrase "...
The Richmond Union Passenger Railway's electric trolley replaced horse-drawn carriages and proved electric power was practical for public transportati...
British scientist James Smithson had never visited America, yet he left his entire fortune to the United States to create an institution "for the incr...
Missouri's statehood was part of the Missouri Compromise, which attempted to maintain the balance between free and slave states. The compromise tempor...
The former royal palace became one of the world's greatest museums, initially displaying 537 paintings. Today it houses over 380,000 objects and is th...
Built to solve the problem of determining longitude at sea, the observatory became the location of the Prime Meridian (0° longitude). Astronomers at G...
After sailing less than a mile, the most expensive warship ever built capsized and sank, killing 30 people. The ship was too top-heavy with decoration...
Magellan himself died in the Philippines and never completed the journey, but his crew became the first to sail around the world. Of the 270 men who b...
