This Day in History | 1942 Japanese forces capture 75,000 Filipino and American troops on the Bataan Peninsula. The prisoners are forced to march to a...
This Day in History | 1865 Gen. Robert E. Lee commanding general of the Confederal Army surrenders to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia. Good...
This Day in History | 1974 Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s record. Aaron would go on to hit 755 homers. His...
This Day in History | 1970 John Wayne wins his first—and only—Academy Award for acting for his role in the western True Grit. Good morning middle...
This Day in History | 1917 America formally enters World War I whe the U.S. House of Representatives endorses a declaration of war on Germany by...
This Day in History | 1994 Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain kills himself at his house in Seattle, Washington. Good morning Middle Americans, Another day, another...
This Day in History | 1968 The Rev. Marten Luther King, Jr. is shot and killed in Memphis Tennessee by assassin James Earl Ray. Good Morning...
This Day in History | 1996 Theodore John Kaczynski is arrested by FBI agents and accused of sending 16 mail bombs, killing three people and injuring...
This Day in History | 1992 A jury finds mobster John Gotti, nicknamed the Teflon Don for his ability to elude conviction, guilty on 13 counts,...
This Day in History | 1970 Richard Nixon signs legislation that bans cigarette ads on television. The last televised cigarette ad ran at 11:50 p.m. during...