This Day in History | 1869 The presidents of Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads meet in Promontory Utah to drive a ceremonial stake in the...
This Day in History | 1960 The FDA approves the world’s first commercially produced birth-control bill–Enovid-10, made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois. Good...
This Day in History | 1945 Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied...
This Day in History | 1915 A German U-boat torpedoes and sinks the RMS Lusitania, an ocean liner, traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. The...
This Day in History | 2004 An estimated 5.1 million people tune in for the final episode of Friends on NBC. Good morning Middle Americans, We...
This Day in History | 1961 Alan Shepard became the first American in space when the Freedom 7 spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on...
This Day in History | 1970 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four...
This Day in History | 1933 James Brown, the Godfather of Soul is born in Barnwell South, Carolina. Good morning Middle America, As the country begins...
This Day in History | 2011 Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, is killed by U.S....
This Day in History | 1898 At Manila Bay in the Philippines, the U.S. Asiatic Squadron destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of...