Today in 2001, the young Dreamworks studios releases the movie Shrek. The film is based on a 1990 children book written by William Steig. However what mak...
Today in 1954, the supreme court rules in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in schools in unconstitutional. The deci...
Today in 1941, the Gloster-Whittle E 28/39 aircraft successfully flies over Cranwell England. In doing so, the aircraft became the first of any Allied ...
Today in 1804, Lewis and Clark begin their famed expedition to explore newly acquired U.S. land. Being the third President, Thomas Jefferson made a deal...
Today in 1869, the Presidents of Union Pacific and Central Pacific railway companies, place the last spike needed to connect their railroads together. ...
Today in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson gives a proclamation to create Mother's day as a holiday. The idea for having such a peaceful day is commonly credited...
Today in 1970, four students died while protesting the Vietnam war, in what would later be called the Kent State massacre. Several days after President...
Today in 1952, a modified U.S. Air Force C-47 is piloted and landed at the North Pole by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant Colonel...
Today in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates the Empire Sate building by pressing a button in the White House symbolically lighting the...
Today in 1975, South Vietnam surrenders to the North after a quick and easy assault. With a rapid departure of U.S. support, South Vietnam became a shell...
Today in 1822, Military leader and President Ulysses S. Grant is born. Grant never figured he would be joining the army when he was a young boy, however...
