This Day in History | 1997 U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico,...
This Day in History | 1992 Mafia boss John Gotti, nicknamed the “Teflon Don” because he avoided convictions in previous trials, gets a life sentence after...
This Day in History | 1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the...
This Day in History | 1788 New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the...
This Day in History | 1975 Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters....
All Eyes on Tulsa for Trump Rally This Day in History | 1865 Juneteenth is an unofficial American holiday and an official Texas state holiday, celebrated...
This Day in History | 1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York. It was a gift of friendship from the people of France, celebrating...
This Day in History | 1884 The first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York. The new entertainment was an instant...
This Day in History | 1215 King John signs the Magna Carta. The document is viewed as the people’s reassertion of rights against an oppressive ruler,...
This Day in History | 1776 The Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and...