Significant events that happened on this day.
Irma became one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded, devastating several Caribbean islands before hitting Florida. The storm mainta...
Two Stanford PhD students officially incorporated their search engine company, which would go on to become one of the most valuable corporations in th...
An estimated 78 million people tuned in to discover whether Dr. Richard Kimble would finally prove his innocence. The episode held the record for high...
This act of defiance against school desegregation sparked a constitutional crisis and forced President Eisenhower to send federal troops to enforce in...
Americans from coast to coast watched the same live broadcast simultaneously for the first time in history. Truman spoke at the Japanese Peace Treaty...
This invention revolutionized photography by making it accessible to ordinary people for the first time. Eastman's slogan 'You press the button, we do...
After decades of fighting to defend Apache lands, Geronimo and his small band of followers surrendered in Arizona. He was then held as a prisoner of w...
Edison flipped the switch to illuminate 85 buildings in lower Manhattan, marking the birth of the electrical power industry. The station initially pow...
This bizarre political crisis occurred because Tyler, a former Democrat who ran as a Whig, kept vetoing his own party's legislation. The mass resignat...
A group of 44 settlers established what would become the second-largest city in the United States. The original name translates to 'The Town of Our La...
Hudson was actually working for the Dutch East India Company when he discovered the river that would later bear his name. His voyage up the Hudson Riv...
