ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY…1945: Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany — resulting in a firestorm and 22,000 casualties. The FBI is warning its agents to look out...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY…1492: 1st Spanish settlement La Navidad in the New World is founded by Christopher Columbus (modern Môle-Saint-Nicolas in Haiti). The Federal Bureau of Investigation has...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY…1639: 1st observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree – helped establish size of the Solar System. FBI Director...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY…1933: 1st modern sit-down strike by Hormel meat packers in Austin, Minnesota. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested two illegal immigrants from Venezuela...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY…1860: Republican Abraham Lincoln of Illinois elected the 16th President of the United States of America. Congressional Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released a...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY…1845: First nationally observed uniform election day in the United States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. A federal judge...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY…1929: “Black Thursday,” start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%. New documents from whistleblowers reveal that President Joe Biden “was aware...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY…1957: A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world’s first major nuclear accident. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed...
Kevin Brock, a former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI and principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), says that the unsealed Mar-a-Lago search warrant...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY…1830: 1st American built locomotive, “Tom Thumb,” races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record...