Vice President Richard Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy faced off in the first televised presidential debate in U ...

Throughout the 1960s, computers went through a series of major advances in technology, design, speed, price, storage, and ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the ...

There are 40 days left in the election and it is currently too close for anyone to confidently call whether it will be Harris ...

Henry Hale Bliss' death presaged the battle between the 20th-century automobile lobby and walkers in U.S. cities Chris Klimek ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1887, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported ... The entire surrender ceremony formalizing Japan’s first defeat in modern history will last only about a half-hour.

ON THIS DAY IN 1948, the Eagle reported, “BERLIN (U.P.) — Soviet authorities made a new assault on the Anglo-American airlift today by demanding that American Air Force headquarters provide ...

William T. Sherman’s forces occupied Atlanta. In 1935, a Category 5 hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys on Labor Day, claiming more than 400 lives. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

Nigeria was granted independence on October 1, 1960. In a few hours from now, Nigeria will turn 64. Ahead of the big day, ...

American political and broadcast history unfolded on this day in history, Sept. 26, 1960, as Vice President Richard Nixon, a California Republican, and Sen. John F. Kennedy, a Massachusetts ...

On this day, September 26th, history has seen a myriad of significant events that have shaped our world in various ways, ...