5+ hour, 31+ min ago  (480+ words) Today is June 15. On this date in: 1215: King John of England signed the Magna Carta, Latin for the "Great Charter," a peace agreement between him and rebellious, liberty-seeking barons that didn't last. Pope Innocent III annulled the treaty before the…...

5+ hour, 28+ min ago  (359+ words) Today is June 20. On this date in: 1911: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, shortened as NAACP, was incorporated in New York with part of its mission being "to promote equality of rights and to eradicate caste or…...

4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (444+ words) Today is June 18. On this date in: 1873: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was convicted of voting illegally and ordered to pay a $100 fine, plus court costs, for casting a ballot in the 1872 presidential election that incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant won over Horace…...

4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (341+ words) Today is June 17. On this date in: 1631: Empress Mumtaz Mahaldied in Burhanpur, India, shortly after giving birth to her 14thchild with her husband, Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan I. He had her body moved to his first capital, Agra, where the palatial Taj…...

4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (263+ words) Today is June 16. On this date in: 1487: England, led by King Henry VII, won the Wars of the Roses when it defeated the'Yorkist'rebellion in the final battle. 1846:'Pope Pius IX began his 32-year reign as the head of the Roman…...

4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (345+ words) Today is June 14. On this date in: 1775: Two months after the Revolutionary War began with shots fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, the Continental Congress approved creation of the Continental Army, marking the birth of the U. S. Armed Forces. 1777: The…...

4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (400+ words) Today is June 19. On this date in: 1846: Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, was the site of the first recorded baseball game organized under the rules of Alexander Cartwright, a founder of the New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club. 1865: Although…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (430+ words) When visitors step inside the American Aspirations exhibit inside the newly opened Smithsonian Castle in Washington DC, they're greeted by one of the most symbolic objects in the 250-year history of the United States. Enshrined in a gold case " the…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (24+ words) USA Today How the Mississippi River shaped US borders, trade and Mark Twain...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1751+ words) HANNIBAL, MO " From his wheelhouse 25 feet above the water, Capt. Steve Terry has watched the muddy Mississippi River roll beneath the flat bottom of his riverboat Mark Twain for nearly 50 years. Terry still loves every second of the days he…...