12+ hour, 2+ min 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…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (251+ words) Today is Saturday, April 18, the 108th day of 2026. There are 257 days left in the year. On April 18, 2016, "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop stage biography of America's first treasury secretary, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. In 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride…...

1+ 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+ week, 3+ 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…...

2+ week, 10+ min ago  (361+ words) Today is Sunday, April 5, the 95th day of 2026. There are 270 days left in the year. On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death following their conviction in New York on charges of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (350+ words) Today is Tuesday, March 31, the 90th day of 2026. There are 275 days left in the year. On March 31, 1995, Tejano music star Selena, 23, died after being shot by Yolanda Sald'var, the president of Selena's fan club, who was found to have been embezzling…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago  (373+ words) Today is Sunday, March 29, the 88th day of 2026. There are 277 days left in the year. On March 29, 1943, World War II rationing of meat, fats and cheese began, limiting American consumers to store purchases of an average of about two pounds a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (288+ words) Today is Saturday, March 28, the 87th day of 2026. There are 278 days left in the year. On March 28, 1990, President George H. W. Bush posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the late Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in track at the 1936 Berlin…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (333+ words) Today is Wednesday, March 25, the 84th day of 2026. There are 281 days left in the year. On March 25, 1947, a coal dust explosion inside the Centralia Coal Co. Mine No. 5 in Washington County, Illinois, killed 111 miners; 31 survived. In 1894, Jacob S. Coxey began a march…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (377+ words) Today is Friday, March 20, the 79th day of 2026. There are 286 days left in the year. On March 20, 2016, President Barack Obama began a three-day visit to communist Cuba during which he met with President Raul Castro and delivered a speech carried on…...