Pop superstar Whitney Houston dies at age 48
Whitney Houston, one of the world’s top-selling singers from the mid-1980s to late 1990s, is found d ...View More
Tiger Woods apologizes for extramarital affairs
On February 19, 2010, professional golfer Tiger Woods gives a televised news conference in which he ...View More
Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar
On March 7, 2010, Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, ...View More
Green River serial killer pleads guilty to 49th murder
On February 18, 2011, in a Kent, Washington, courtroom, Gary Leon Ridgway pleads guilty to the 1982 ...View More
Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Arkansas
On March 7, 1862, Union forces under General Samuel Curtis clash with the army of General Earl Van D ...View More
U.S. figure skating team killed in plane crash
On February 15, 1961, the entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team is killed in a plane crash in Be ...View More
Winston Churchill dies
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the British leader who guided Great Britain and the Allies th ...View More
Ray Charles records “What’d I Say” at Atlantic Records
The phone call that Ray Charles placed to Atlantic Records in early 1959 went something like this: “ ...View More
It’s a tie for Song of the Year at the 20th annual Grammy Awards
Music fans might expect that the songs up for Best Song consideration at the 1977 Grammy Awards incl ...View More
China invades Vietnam
In response to the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, China launches an invasion of Vietnam.Tensions b ...View More
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