Significant events that happened on this day.
The cow had escaped from a nearby farm and wandered onto an overpass above Route 495, where it then fell through the roof of the Garcias' minivan, lan...
Ripken sat out the final home game of the season against the New York Yankees, ending a streak that had lasted over 16 years without missing a single...
Following the success of the Pokémon video games, the card game launched and immediately sold out across Japan. Within three years, it would become so...
The small Central American nation became the last British colony on the American mainland to achieve independence. However, Britain had to maintain tr...
The Senate voted 99-0 to confirm President Reagan's nominee, making history despite O'Connor having been rejected for legal positions earlier in her c...
The first-ever prime-time regular-season NFL game revolutionized sports broadcasting with its three-man announce booth and focus on entertainment. The...
The Great New England Hurricane became one of the deadliest and most destructive storms in U.S. history, with sustained winds of 121 mph and wave heig...
The book that would eventually spawn The Lord of the Rings trilogy started as a bedtime story Tolkien told his children, with the opening line "In a h...
In response to eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's letter asking if Santa Claus was real, editor Francis Pharcellus Church penned what would become the...
The author who would go on to write The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Island was born to a working-class family. His mother w...
The National Convention formally declared France a republic, marking the end of over 800 years of royal rule. This happened just over a month after Ki...
The 21-year-old Connecticut schoolteacher turned spy was executed in New York City, reportedly saying "I only regret that I have but one life to lose...