1976: Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley — who held the office for 21 years — died of a heart attack. On that frigid Monday, ...

1981: The J. Geils Band played the last concert at the Uptown Theatre in Chicago before it closed. Subscribe to the free ...

On the University of Alabama campus, you’ll see one year referenced over and over: 1831. The school opened for business and began classes April 18, 1831. But it was actually founded a decade earlier ...

When Elvis Presley concluded his two-week engagement at the Las Vegas Hilton this week, he also completed his present ...

The story of the first powered flight, and how a fragile aircraft in 1903 changed commerce, warfare, and human movement ...

Wegener at the University of Graz in Germany says that millions of years ago the two Americas, as well as Europe, Asia, ...

MotoGP has reported “record-breaking” growth across the 2025 season, despite attendance declines at Silverstone and the Red ...

Wright brothers made the first successful flight in history. Down in North Carolina’s Outer Banks near Kitty Hawk, Orville and Wilbur Wright piloted a gas-powered, propeller-driven biplane. The plane ...

The last two decades of the 20th century were packed with newsworthy events, and some of them coincided with the year of your ...

In September 1919, the Coca-Cola Company (KO) went public at $40 per share. At the time, the world was emerging from World ...

Long before patrol cars were equipped with radios and digital dispatch systems, Titusville police officers relied on a simple signal.

View your bracket and final ranking on the leaderboard. NORMAN, Okla. − For much of the first half of Alabama football's 34-24 win at Oklahoma on Friday, Dec. 19, in the first round of the College ...