Connect with us
In a year marked by as much social and cultural upheaval as 1968, it was understandable that the New York Times review of a controversial musical newly arrived...
On this day in 2011, Phillip Garrido, 60, and his wife Nancy, 55, plead guilty to the 1991 kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard. The Garridos held...
As a nearly month-long police investigation draws to a close, North CarolinaDistrict Attorney Jerry Spivey announces on this day in 1993 that the death of 28-year-old Brandon...
Almost a decade after they met at a celebrity tennis tournament, the television news reporter Maria Shriver marries the movie actor and former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Daniel Defoe’s fictional work The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoeis published. The book, about a shipwrecked sailor who spends 28 years on a deserted island,...
On April 24, 1980, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran ends with eight U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages...
She was one of the biggest and most popular movie stars of all time, making her first film appearance at the age of seven and earning...
Pat Tillman, who gave up his pro football career to enlist in the U.S. Army after the terrorist attacks of September 11, is killed by friendly...
During the Texan War for Independence, the Texas militia under Sam Houston launches a surprise attack against the forces of Mexican General Santa Anna along the San Jacinto River....
Two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. At about11:20 a.m., Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, dressed in...