On April 26 2012 former Liberian president Charles Taylor is found guilty of abetting horrific war crimes including rape and mutilation in Sierra Leone.His c...
German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch famously climbs Mont Ventoux
The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano Italy
Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo deMedici and kill Giuliano deMedici in Florence
On this day in 2013 legendary country singer and songwriter George Jones whose numerous hit songs include White Lightning Walk Through T...
On April 26 1986 the worlds worst nuclear power plant accident occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. Thirty-two people di...
During the Spanish Civil War the German military tests its powerful new air forcethe Luftwaffeon the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain....
On this day in 1954 the Salk polio vaccine field trials involving 1.8 million children begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean Virginia. C...
The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281400 men the lowest since July 1966.These figures were a direct result of Presi...
On April 26 1918 Fanny Blankers-Koen who won four Olympic gold medals in track and field events at the 1948 Summer Games is born in the Netherlands. Blanke...
On this day in 1984 President Ronald Reagan arrives in China for a diplomatic meeting with Chinese President Li Xiannian. The trip marked the third time a U.S....
James Beckwourth one of only a handful of early mountain men to emerge from the system of slavery is born in Fredericksburg Virginia.The exact year of Beckwo...
The crowd outside 254 West 54th Street in New York City on this day in 1927 would have been waiting for the curtain of a Puccini opera. On this day in 1957 or ...
The novelist and screenwriter Anita Loos is born on this day in Mt. Shasta California in 1888.Loos began writing as a child and by age 13 was already contribu...
Almost a decade after they met at a celebrity tennis tournament the television news reporter Maria Shriver marries the movie actor and former bodybuilder Arnol...
On this day in 1986 the worlds worst nuclear accident to date occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine. The full toll from this disa...
Thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan is found sexually molested and murdered in the basement of the Atlanta Georgia pencil factory where she worked. Her murder later...
In an effort to resolve several problems in Asia including the war between the French and Vietnamese nationalists in Indochina representatives from the world...
John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.Twenty-six-year-old Bo...