1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (266+ words) Today is Saturday, May 9, the 129th day of 2026. There are 236 days left in the year. On May 9, 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1, 300-foot section of the southbound span…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (33+ words) President Harry S. Truman announced in a radio address that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered, stating that "the flags of freedom fly all over Europe" on V-E (Victory in Europe) Day....

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (298+ words) Today is Thursday, May 7, the 127th day of 2026. There are 238 days left in the year. On May 7, 1945, Nazi Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, ending its role in World War II. In 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed and…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (286+ words) Today is Wednesday, May 6, the 126th day of 2026. There are 239 days left in the year. On May 6, 2013, three women who had been kidnapped and held for years are found alive at their captor's home in Cleveland, Ohio. (Ariel Castro pleaded guilty…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (291+ words) Today is Wednesday, April 29, the 119th day of 2026. There are 246 days left in the year. On April 29, 2011, Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton were married in an opulent ceremony at London's Westminster Abbey. In 1862, a Union naval force commanded by Flag…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (448+ words) Today is Friday, April 24, the 114th day of 2026. There are 251 days left in the year. On April 24, 1960, rioting erupted in Biloxi, Mississippi, after Black protesters staging a "wade-in" at a whites-only beach were attacked by a crowd of white people. In…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (414+ words) Today is Sunday, April 19, the 109th day of 2026. There are 256 days left in the year. On April 19, 1775, the American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord " the start of an eight-year armed conflict between American colonists and the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (294+ words) Today is Tuesday, April 14, the 104th day of 2026. There are 261 days left in the year. On April 14, 2021, a white former suburban Minneapolis police officer, Kim Potter, was charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright in a shooting…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (339+ words) Today is Saturday, April 11, the 101st day of 2026. There are 264 days left in the year. On April 11, 2012, George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. (He was acquitted at…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (317+ words) Today is Thursday, April 9, the 99th day of 2026. There are 266 days left in the year. On April 9, 1942, during World War II, some 75, 000 Philippine and American soldiers surrendered to Japanese troops, ending the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines. The prisoners were…...