On October 4, 2011, Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison for his wife’s murder, is released after DNA evidenc...

On October 4, 1970, singer Janis Joplin dies of an accidental heroin overdose and was discovered in her Los Angeles h...

On September 20, 1806, after nearly two-and-a-half years spent exploring the western wilderness, the Corps of Discove...

President Nixon announces the cancellation of the draft calls for November and December. He reduced the draft call by...

On September 19, 1960, Chubby Chucker hits No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with his cover of “The Twist.” The so...

On September 19, 1995, a manifesto by the Unabomber, an anti-technology terrorist, is published by The New York ...

The United States detonates a 1.7 kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel in Nevada. The test, known as Raini...

Thirteen-year-old Melissa Benoit disappears in her hometown of Kingston, Massachusetts, on her way home from a friend...

Muhammad Ali defeats Leon Spinks to win the world heavyweight boxing title for the third time in his career, the firs...

Hip-hop star Tupac Shakur dies on September 13, 1996, of gunshot wounds suffered in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting six...

After decades of bloody animosity, representatives of Israel and Palestine meet on the South Lawn of the White House ...

Virginia health officials urge people who wake up near a bat to contact their local health department or animal control for prompt guidance.

On September 6, 2018, off-duty Dallas police officer Amber Guyger fatally shoots Botham Jean in his own apartment. Gu...

U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford becomes the first African American to travel into space when the s...

It was the 'One to One' benefit concert at Madison Square Garden.

Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. He would remain on t...

On this day in 1961, a white man brutally beat civil rights leader Bob Moses as he accompanied Black residents of Amite County, Mississippi, to the county courthouse to register to vote. https://t.co/...

Around dusk on the evening on August 29, 1970, a group of 23 Native American activists climbs to the top of Mount Rus...

Confederate General Robert E. Lee deals a stinging defeat to Union General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run...

Pop sensation Michael Jackson is born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana. Jackson began performing with his four br...

Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, as a Category 3 hurricane. The storm was the worst natu...

After four years of separation, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, and his wife, Princess Diana...

Between August 26 and August 28, 1941, more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews are murdered by the Gestapo in occupied Ukrain...

On August 28, 1963, legendary gospel vocalist Mahalia Jackson not only performs as the lead-in to Dr. Martin Luther K...

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the African American civil rights movement reaches its high...

Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a w...

On August 27, 1908, future President Lyndon Baines Johnson is born on a farm near Stonewall, Texas. The brash, outspo...

On August 27, 1976, the United States Tennis Association bars transgender athlete Renée Richards from competing in th...

Music icon Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 42. The death of the “King of Rock and Roll” broug...

During the War of 1812, American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit and his army to the British without a f...

On August 15, 1899, in Detroit, Michigan, Henry Ford resigns his position as chief engineer at the Edison Illuminatin...

The Woodstock music festival opens on a patch of farmland in the upstate New York town of Bethel. The festival became...

Today, Judge Emmett Sullivan in the District of Columbia held a status conference in Phang v.

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The C.S.S. Arkansas, the most feared Confederate ironclad on the Mississippi River, is blown up by her crew after suf...

In Philadelphia, delegates to the Constitutional Convention begin debating the first complete draft of the proposed C...

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing African Americans the ri...

The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bom...