1972: Forty-five people died when a United Airlines jet crashed into bungalows on West 70th Place while approaching Chicago’s ...

2008: Mayor Richard M. Daley struck a deal to close a budget shortfall — the city got a paltry $1.16 billion upfront in ...

This historic Alabama steakhouse still cooks every steak with the same timeless techniques perfected in the 1940s, keeping ...

Let’s take a look back at the biggest snowfalls since modern records began in the 1940s and why they still stand out today.

Every day has a history attached to it: small moments, significant changes, births, deaths and surprises we might not know. What happened on November 27, then? On this date in history, the world ...

Today is Thursday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 2025 with 20 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, ...

Golfer Bobby Jones wins the first James E. Sullivan Award. 1940 — Joe Louis knocks out Al McCoy in the sixth round at the Boston Garden to retain the world heavyweight title. 1945 — The Cleveland Rams ...

On November 30, 1941, Italy's Caproni Campini N.1 made history by flying the world's first jet-powered airmail. Piloted by veteran aviator Mario de Bernardi, the experimental motorjet completed a ...

The Telephone Exchange in London Bridge opened in 2019. The building was erected in 1915 and was used as a wartime telephone ...

While parents today wouldn't dream of giving their child a game that included poison, Sky's Hazardous History reveals that ...

The tune crooned by Bing Crosby is still one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. It's endured as a favorite — ...

A new online history project shows how anxious Americans in the 1940s and ‘50s blamed comics for juvenile delinquency and ...