Do you remember 9/11? I sure do. After 19 terrorists attacked us with hijacked planes, fear gripped the nation. Parents rushed to pick their kids up from school. People flooded […]

On this day in 1964, the Beatles released their Can’t Buy Me Love album, the largest advance-selling record in history. Over 2 million customers pre-ordered the album, and the title […]

On this day in 1937, physician Bernard Fantus coined the word “blood bank” by establishing the first one at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Four years earlier, Fantus had received […]

On this day in 1879, Albert Einstein was born. One of the most brilliant scientists of all time, Einstein formulated the theory of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for […]

On this day in 1781, William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus. Born in Germany, the Herschel family moved to England when William was 17 years old. A musician like his […]

On this day in 1930, Mohandas Gandhi took the first steps of a 240-mile march to the seaside town of Dandi in western India.  The daunting walk was not a […]

On this day in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur, under presidential orders, fled the Philippines as the Japanese Navy moved in. Escaping at dusk by PT boat, MacArthur and his family […]

On this day in 1785, President George Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson as Minister to France, who stepped in for an aged Benjamin Franklin. When someone mentioned that he was Franklin’s […]

On this day in 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court exonerated 35 Africans who had seized control of the Amistad, a Spanish slave ship headed to Cuba. The incident occurred two […]

On this day in 1917, riots and demonstrations erupted in the city of Petrograd, now called St. Petersburg. The February Revolution, so named because Russia observed the Julian calendar at […]