Significant events that happened on this day.
A tanker truck leaked fuel for miles along Interstate 10, creating a river of flammable liquid. When it ignited, the driver was unaware and continued...
The robbers simply walked in with guns, pulled the paintings off the wall, and drove away as stunned tourists watched. The artworks, worth over $100 m...
Wait, that's wrong - actually in 1987, 'Pee-wee's Playhouse' won its first Emmy Award. The children's show featured a talking chair, a pterodactyl mad...
Bill 101 made French mandatory for government, education, and business signage. The law even regulated the size of French text versus English on comme...
On the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage, women across America walked out of their jobs and homes. Some protesters chained themselves to public bui...
The R-7 Semyorka missile could travel over 4,000 miles, making it capable of reaching the United States. This same rocket design would launch Sputnik...
NBC's W2XBS used two cameras to televise the doubleheader at Ebbets Field to the approximately 400 television sets in New York City. Red Barber called...
After decades of suffragist activism, women across America gained constitutional voting rights. The amendment passed by just one vote in the Tennessee...
Born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, she would dedicate her life to serving the poorest of the poor in India. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, which g...
DeForest held over 180 patents but was constantly broke due to poor business decisions and multiple fraud charges. Despite inventing technology crucia...
Cook's mission was officially to observe Venus passing between Earth and the Sun, but he also carried secret orders to search for the legendary southe...
This pivotal battle of the Hundred Years' War showed that common soldiers with longbows could defeat armored nobility. The French lost thousands of kn...