Today in History

Event:	1965: Great Northeastern Blackout
A blackout affecting Ontario (Canada) and the northeastern United States occurred whe...

Event:	1731: Birthdate of mathematician and scientis...
Banneker’s father was a freed slave; his mother was the daughter of a woman who had b...

Event:	1989: Berlin Wall falls
The fall of the Berlin Wall is the event most closely associated with the end of the ...

Event:	1934: Carl Sagan, astronomer, author and teac...
New York-born astonomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan was one of the consummate educa...

Event:	1984: Three Service Men is unveiled
Maya Ying Lin’s original design for the Vietnam War Memorial stirred tumultuous feeli...