January 30th, 1968A turning point for Americas role in the Vietnam War as the Tet offensive begins. Communist forces launch surprise attacks to Khe Sanh, Vietnam shattering U.S. government claims about the wars progress. 1933Nazi leader Adolf Hitler
You have to find the answer to that riddle somewhere else. January 26th 1998. President Bill Clinton denies having an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told
January 24th, 1848. Northern California James Marshall finds a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill, a discovery that sparks the Gold Rush the following year. 1965. In London, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who led his nation through the da
January 22nd, 1973. In one of its most controversial rulings, the US Supreme Court legalizes abortion in a landmark case of Roe versus Wade. Also that same year. For in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society, and
January 31st 1958America enters the Space Age, successfully launching its first satellite into orbit Explorer One. It happens just months after the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the very first satellite into orbit. 2001 Libyan Intelligence officer i
January 21st, 1793. In Paris, the French Revolution turns bloody as King Louis XVI condemned for treason is executed on the guillotine. 1924. Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who founded the Soviet Union, the worlds first Communist state, di
January 23rd, 1973President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Americans military role in the Vietnam War. We today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia. More th
February 3rd 1959If the Bible Tells You So Do you believe in rock 'n roll Can music save your mortal soul. And can you teach me how to dance real slow Well, I know that you're in love with him .Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym Three stars of early
January 28th, 1986Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after takeoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida. All seven crew members on board the Challenger, among them school teacher Christa McAuliffe, are killed. President Ronald Regan tells a shocked
February 6th, 1911You'll forgive me, I'm gonna do it just one more time, you ain't seen nothing yet. President Ronald Reagan, who led the United States into the final years of the Cold War, is born in Tampico, Illinois. The former movie actor is cred
February 8th, 1999In the Middle East, hundreds of world leaders, many of them bitter enemies, attend the funeral of King Hussein in Jordan. 1915The Birth of a Nation, a silent movie epic about the civil war premieres in Los Angeles. D.W. Griffiths wo
Feb 10th 1962 A high profile exchange of prisoners between Washington and Moscow during the Cold War. The Soviet Union releases Frances Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot shot down while on a reconnaissance flight over its territory. In return, the U
January 27th. 1945. In the final month of WWII, Soviet troops liberate Nazi Germanys concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland, thats where up to a million and a half people, 90% of them Jews, perished, as part of the Nazis final soluti
Jan 20th 1981. Iran releases 52 Americans taken hostage at the US embassy in Tehran after 444 days in captivity. It happened just minutes after the Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President succeeding Jimmy Carter in the White House. 1961. In Washington
September 4th, 1957In little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of America`s schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus orders State`s National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school
February 28th,1953In Britain, scientists say they found a double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule that contains the human genes. Years later, Francis Crick describes this discovery that he and fellow scientist James Watson made. Biological system
February 17th, 1992In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer receives his series of life sentences for his grisly string of murders. Dahmer had admitted to killing 17 young men and boys, some of whom he had mutilated and cannibalized. Just a few yea
February 18th, 1885Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the great American novels, is first published in the United States. 1861Months before the Civil War breaks out, Jefferson Davis is sworn in as President of the newly formed Co
February 19th, 1945In the final months of World War II, some thirty thousand US marines begin landing in Iwo Jima, that's where they fight months-long battle to seize the rest of the Pacific island from Japanese forces. 1942Also during World War II,
February 22nd,1732George Washington, the first president of United States is born in whats been the Virginia Colony. Washington commanded American forces during the Revolutionary War and led the Founding Fathers in drafting the US Constitution. 2006I
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