Tuesday, Janauary 17, 1995, a 7.2 earthquake devastated the Japanese port of Kobe.  Hundreds of people were killed and thousands lost their homes.

On December 17th, 1989 the cartoon family known as The Simpsons, debuted as their own solo show on FOX. They started off as shorts on the Tracey Ullman Show, a variety program on FOX. This makes it the...

On December 10th 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. He was awarded this because of his peaceful involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. King was...

On December 6th, 1865, the 13th amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery. It states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly...

On December 4, 1983, the first episode of the animated show Inspector Gadget aired on television. It’s the 27th anniversary now, and it ended on February 1, 1986.

On November twenty-sixth, nineteen forty-one, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill into law that said the fourth Thurday in November would be Thanksgiving every year from then on. Two years prior, Roosevelt...

November 22 was the day that fifty six years ago, U.S president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated while in Dallas. He was in Dallas on November 22, 1963. At 11:53 a.m the Air Force One arrived...

25 years ago today, a football star and actor O.J. Simpson was tried for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson (his second wife), and her friend Ronald Goldman. Both of their bodies were found outside of...

Today in 1913  Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, leads the first successful ascent of Denali the highest point on the American continent at 20,320

75 years ago on June 6th, Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower says yes to Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day which was the code name. The Allies invaded the coast of Normandy. In an article...

On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, the Allied...

1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition. This was the first ever electric railway and trains have evolved from this to make trains bigger and faster for easier transportation.