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On this day in History - April 15 Paid Members Public
1912 – British passenger line sinks in the North Atlantic... 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn 2013 – Two bombs explode near the...
On this day in History - April 8 Paid Members Public
April 08 1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war... 1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of... 2008 – The construction of the world’s first skyscraper...
On this day in History - April 1 Paid Members Public
April 01 1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for... 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air... 1937 – The Royal New Zealand Air Force is... 1949 – The Government of Canada repeals...
On this day in History - March 25 Paid Members Public
1655 – Saturn’s largest moon... 1807 – ...the first passenger-carrying railway in the world. 1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle..
On this day in History - March 18 Paid Members Public
1874 – The Hawaiian Kingdom signs a treaty with the... 1944 – Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying...
On this day in History - March 11 Paid Members Public
1990 – Lithuania declares independence from the... 2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares...
On this day in History - March 4 Paid Members Public
1882 – Britain’s first electric... 1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes under...
On this day in History - February 26 Paid Members Public
February 26 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes... 1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is... 1980 – Egypt and Israel establish...
On this day in History - February 19 Paid Members Public
1954 – Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders... 1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique reawakens... 1968 – Mister Roger’s Neighborhood made..
On this day in History - February 12 Paid Members Public
1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the... 1994 – Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch’s iconic painting... 2004 – The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex...
On this day in History - February 5 Paid Members Public
1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of... 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of...
On this day in History - January 29 Paid Members Public
1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful g... 1936 – The first inductees into the... 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a...
On this day in History - January 22 Paid Members Public
1808 – The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing 1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of 1968 – Apollo Program: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying... 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the...
On this day in History - January 15 Paid Members Public
1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a... 1919 – Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an... 1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in...
On this day in History - December 18 Paid Members Public
1854 – The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes... 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of...
On this day in History - December 11 Paid Members Public
1913 – More than two years after it was stolen from the Louvre, Leonardo da Vinci’s painting... 1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous... 1962 –... to be executed in Canada.