1864 – Union General William T. Sherman orders the destruction of the business district of Atlanta, Georgia, before he embarks...
1532 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro springs a trap on Incan emperor Alahualpa, massacring 5,000 unarmed men and taking Atahualpa...
1883 – American and Canadian railroads create and begin to use four continental time zones to end the confusion of...
1820 – The American whaler Essex, while hunting sperm whales off the South American coast, is rammed twice by an...
1883 – California bandit Black Bart makes his last stagecoach robbery. He makes a quick getaway, but drops an incriminating...
1953 – Indiana Textbook Commission member charges that Robin Hood was a communist and demands references removed from school textbooks....
1558 – 25-year-old Elizabeth ascends to England’s throne after her half-sister, Mary I, dies. Elizabeth faces danger and opposition, but...
1863 – At the dedication of a military cemetery, four months after the single bloodiest battle of the Civil War, Pres....
1859 – The famous western outlaw “Billy the Kid” is born, most likely in a poor Irish neighborhood on News...
1874 – Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, who guided Great Britain and the Allies though the crisis of World War II,...