September 27, 1964The Warren Commission wrapsup its investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Its report concludes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy, and wounded Texas governor John Connally the previous year.
October 4th, 1957Dawn of the Space Age, as the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit. 1993A bloody battle in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. Two US Blackhawk helicopters are shot down, while gun battles rage between Am
September 30th, 1946Judgment in the German city of Nuremberg more than a year after World War II ends. That's where an international military tribunal finds nearly two dozen top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. More than half are sentenced to death
October 5th, 2001A new scare for Americans just weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks. Robert Stevens, a tabloid photo editor in Florida, dies from inhaled anthrax. He is the first of five people to die from anthrax-laced letters which also infect more
October 3rd, 1995In California, a verdict in the murder trial of ex-football player O.J. Simpson: We the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder. Simpson is found not guilty of k
August 22nd, 2005. The last Jewish settlers leave the Gaza Strip. That happens nearly 40 years after Israel captures the territory during the Six-Day War. The Israeli withdrawal makes way for Palestinian control in Gaza. 1996. In Washington, Presiden
September 24th, 1976Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years in prison for taking part in a bank robbery with her kidnappers. She serves nearly 2 years before President Jimmy Carter commutes her sentence. In 2001, President Bill Clin
September 22nd, 1776In New York, the British hang Nathan Hale as a spy during the American Revolution. Hales last words are said to have beenI regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. 1980Iraq Saddam Hussein invades neighboring Iran th
August 5th, 1962You never felt anything for anybody in your life. All you know is the sad words. You could blow up the world, and all you'd feel is sorry for yourself! Actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles home at age 36. Her death
They did not constitute sexual relations as I understood that term to be defined.September 21st, 1998TV networks air President Bill Clinton's federal grand jury testimony about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. During h
January 27th, 1945In the final month of World War II, Soviet troops liberate Nazi Germany's concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland, that's where up to a million and a half people, 90% of them Jews perished, as part of the Nazi's fina
January 20th,1981Iran releases 52 Americans taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, after 444 days in captivity. It happens just minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president succeeding Jimmy Carter in the White House. 1961In Washington,
January 21st, 1793In Pairs, the French Revolution turns bloody as King Louis the 16th condemned for treason is executed on the guillotine. 1924Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who found the Soviet Union, the worlds first Communist Party dies
January 22nd, 1973In one of its most controversial rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court legalizes abortion in a landmark case of Roe versus Wade. Also that same year, Far in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only towards the rich society and
January 23rd, 1973President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Americas military role in the Vietnam War. We today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam in Southeast Asia. More than 2 years la
January 24th, 1848Northern California, James Marshall finds a gold nugget at Sutters Mill, a discovery that sparks the Gold Rush the following year. 1965In London, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who led his nation through the dark da
January 25th, 1981The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrive home in the United States, reuniting with their families at last. 1971In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and three of his female followers are convicted of murder and conspiracy
You have to find the answer to that riddle somewhere else. January 26th, 1998President 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 a
January 31st, 1958America enters the space age, successfully launching its first satellite into orbit Explorer I. It happens just months after the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the very first satellite into orbit. 2001A Libyan intelligence officer i
February 2nd, 1943A major victory for the Soviet Union during World War II, as the last of Nazi Germanys forces in the Battle of Stalingrad surrender. The Nazis and their excess partners lost some 800,000 troops in the month-long battle. The Soviet l
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