By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Dec. 14, the 348th day of 2018. There are 17 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 14, 2012, a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, ...
By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Dec. 12, the 346th day of 2018. There are 19 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Dec. 12, 2000, George W. Bush became president-elect as a divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in ...
By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2018. There are 21 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 10, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. received his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, saying he accepted it “with an abiding faith in America and an ...
Today is Sunday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2018. There are 22 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 9, 1987, the first Palestinian intefadeh, or uprising, began as riots broke out in Gaza and spread to the West Bank, triggering a strong Israeli response. On this ...
Today is Friday, Dec. 7, the 341st day of 2018. There are 24 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as part of its plan to conquer Southeast Asian territories; the raid, ...
Today is Saturday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2018. There are 23 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. On this date: In 1813, ...
By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Dec. 5, the 339th day of 2018. There are 26 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 5, 1994, Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the first GOP speaker of the House in four decades. On this date: In 1776, the first ...
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 4, the 338th day of 2018. There are 27 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Dec. 4, 1783, Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his Continental Army officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York. On this date: In 1619, a group of settlers from ...
By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2018. There are 29 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 2, 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the ...
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2018. There are 30 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus; ...
Today is Friday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2018. There are 31 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 30, 1874, British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace. On this date: In 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary peace ...
Today is Thursday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2018. There are 32 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 29, 1890, the first Army-Navy football game was played at West Point, New York; Navy defeated Army, 24-0. On this date: In 1864, a Colorado militia killed at ...
Today is Monday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2018. There are 35 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 26, 1941, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a note to Japan’s ambassador to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura, setting forth U.S. demands for ...
By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2018. There are 36 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 25, 1963, the body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery; his widow, Jacqueline, lighted an ...
By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2018. There are 38 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On November 23rd, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President John F. ...
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2018. There are 37 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on ...
By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Wednesday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2018. There are 40 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 21, 1980, 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. On this date: In 1789, North ...
By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2018. There are 42 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in ...
Today is Sunday, Nov. 18, the 322nd day of 2018. There are 43 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 18, 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., and four others were killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by members of the Peoples Temple; the killings were followed by a night ...
Today is Saturday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2018. There are 44 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon told Associated Press managing editors in Orlando, Florida: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. ...