George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...
Standard Oil, later Amoco, built its Wood River refinery in 1907, leveraging the location's transportation and water ...
On this date in 1974, Patty Hearst, 19, was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif., by members of the Symbionese ...
Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...
1783: The Great Siege of Gibraltar launched by France and Spain against the British colony during American War of Independence is lifted after 3 years and 7 months. 1812: Lord Byron makes his maiden ...
The plane made its final descent into San Francisco. As it passed over the San Mateo Bridge, I stomped my feet in excitement ...
It involves anti-technology vegan transsexuals known as the Zizians. Gafni notes that he encountered this group more than ...
On Feb. 4, 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica, California, found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole ...
Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launched ‘The Facebook,’ a social media platform, which would go on to become the world’s ...
In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued blanket preemptive pardons Monday to prominent government officials, the bipartisan January 6 th committee, and members of his own family, ...
1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, 19, was kidnapped in Berkeley, California, by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army. 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica, California, found O.J. Simpson ...