Today in 1967, a South African grocer named Louis Washkansky, then fifty-three years old, became history’s first recipient of a human heart transplant...
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Imagine finding a mysterious safe in an old storage locker. Think about all the possibilities of what could be inside. Now picture your life changing the...
Today in 1835, celebrated author and orator Mark Twain is born in Florida, Missouri.
Twain, real name Samuel Clemens, got his first professional writing job in...
Today in 1947, the United Nations reached a highly contested decision to partition Palestine and create an independent Jewish state, Israel. It has proven one...
Today in 1954, Enrico Fermi, the “father” of the nuclear bomb, died. Fermi was the first person to generate a controlled nuclear chain reaction...
Today in 1095, Pope Urban II made a speech entreating all European Christians to go to war with Muslims in the Holy Land. The speech inaugurated the first...
Today in 1941, president Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be held on the fourth Thursday of November. It was a reversal of a disastrous...
Today in 1980 was a watershed day in the history of television. An estimated 350 million people tuned into Dallas around the world, to find out “who...
Today in 1945, the Nuremberg Trials got underway. Twenty-four high ranking Nazis were on trial for war crimes committed during the Second World War.
They were...
Today in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a new military cemetery founded in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The...