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This Day in HIstory | 1953 Senator John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island. Seven years later, the couple would become the youngest...
This Day in History | 2001 At approximately 8:45 a.m., an American Airlines Boeing 767 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center. 18...
This Day in History | 1991 Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is released as a single Good morning Middle Americans, Well well well. Anthony Fauci is...
This Day in History | 1956 The future “King of Rock and Roll” Elvis Presley appears on “The Ed Sullivan Show” program, for the first time....
This Day In History | 1813 The United States gets its nickname, Uncle Sam. The name is linked to Samuel Wilson, a meat packer from Troy,...
This Day in History | 1995 Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks Lou Gerig’s record for consecutive games played in Major League Baseball. Ripken’s 2131st straight game surpassed...
This Day in History | 1774 The first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia. Fifty-six delegates from all the colonies except...
This Day in History | 1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Supreme Court justice after his senate confirmation. He would remain on the Court...
This Day in History | 2005 Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans as a Category 4 hurricane. Katrina was among the worst natural disasters in...
This Day in History | 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks to about 250,000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The demonstrators–Black...
