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Today in History: May 10, 2021
Today is Monday, May 10, the 130th day of 2021. There are 235 days left in the year.…
Today In History: April 28, 2021
Today is Wednesday, April 28, the 118th day of 2021. There are 247 days left in the year.…
Today in History: April 1, 2021
On this date in 1976, Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
Today in History: March 30, 2021
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John W. Hinckley, Jr.; also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and a District of Columbia police officer, Thomas Delahanty.
Today in History: March 23, 2021
On this date one year ago: President Donald Trump said he wanted to reopen the country for business in weeks, not months; he asserted that continued closures could result in more deaths than the coronavirus itself.
Today in History: March 22, 2021
In 1976, principal photography for the first Star Wars movie, directed by George Lucas, began in Tunisia.
Today in History: March 21, 2021
On March 21, 2006, the social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.”
Today in History: March 20, 2021
On March 20, 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members.
Today in History: March 19, 2021
On this date in 1987, televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex and money scandal involving Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary.
Today in History: March 18, 2021
Today is Thursday, March 18, the 77th day of 2021. There are 288 days left in the year.…
Today in History: March 17, 2021
In 1776, the Revolutionary War Siege of Boston ended as British forces evacuated the city.
Today in History: March 16, 2021
On March 16, 1945, during World War II, American forces declared they had secured Iwo Jima, although pockets of Japanese resistance remained.
Today in History: March 14, 2021
On March 14, 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentenced him to death.
Today in History: March 12, 2021
On March 12, 2020, the stock market had its biggest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987 as fears of economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis deepened; the Dow industrials plunged more than 2,300 points, or 10%.
Today in History: March 11, 2021
On March 11, 1918, what were believed to be the first confirmed US cases of a deadly global flu pandemic were reported among U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas; 46 would die. (The worldwide outbreak of influenza claimed an estimated 20 to 40 million lives.)
Today in History: March 10, 2021
On March 10, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln assigned Ulysses S. Grant, who had just received his commission as lieutenant-general, to the command of the Armies of the United States.
Today in History: March 09, 2021
On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. The Amistad, ruled 7-1 in favor of a group of illegally enslaved Africans who were captured off the US coast after seizing control of a Spanish schooner, La Amistad; the justices ruled that the Africans should be set free.
Today in History: March 08, 2021
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 with 239 people on board, vanished during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, setting off a massive and ultimately unsuccessful search.
Today in History: March 07, 2021
On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
Today in History: March 06, 2021
In 1475, Italian artist and poet Michelangelo was born in Caprese in the Republic of Florence.
Today in History: March 05, 2021
On March 5, 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died after three decades in power.
Today in History: March 4, 2021
In 1974, the first issue of People magazine, then called People Weekly, was published by Time-Life Inc.; on the cover was actor Mia Farrow.
Today in History: March 03, 2021
In 1945, the Allies fully secured the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during World War II.