By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2018. There are 79 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 13, 1999, the Senate rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, with 48 senators voting in favor and 51 against, far short of the ...
Today is Thursday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2018. There are 81 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 11, 1991, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas ...
By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2018. There are 82 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion, ...
By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2018. There are 83 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 9, 1776, a group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco. On this date: In 1888, the public was first admitted to ...
By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2018. There are 84 days left in the year. Today is Columbus Day in the United States and Thanksgiving in Canada. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 8, 1998, the House triggered an open-ended impeachment inquiry ...
By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Oct. 4, the 277th day of 2018. There are 88 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit. On this date: In ...
By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2018. There are 89 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 3, 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his ...
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2018. There are 93 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 29, 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic ...
By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2018. There are 95 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On September 27, 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during ...
By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2018. There are 96 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 26, 1960, the first-ever debate between presidential nominees took place as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon ...
By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Sept. 23, the 266th day of 2018. There are 99 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 23, 1955, a jury in Sumner, Mississippi, acquitted two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, of murdering black teenager Emmett Till. (The ...
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Sept. 22, the 265th day of 2018. There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn arrives at 9:54 p.m. Eastern time. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 22, 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. On this date: In 1776, during ...
By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Sept. 21, the 264th day of 2018. There are 101 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 21, 1981, the Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the Supreme ...
By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2018. There are 104 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 18, 1975, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese ...
Today is Monday, Sept. 17, the 260th day of 2018. There are 105 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. On ...
By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Sept. 16, the 259th day of 2018. There are 106 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Sept. 16, 1987, two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth’s ozone layer by calling on nations to ...
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2018. There are 107 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 15, 1972, a federal grand jury in Washington indicted seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in. On this date: In 1776, ...
Today is Thursday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2018. There are 109 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 13, 1971, a four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and ...
By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2018. There are 113 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 9, 1850, California became the 31st state of the union. On this date: In 1543, Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scots at Stirling ...
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Sept. 8, the 251st day of 2018. There are 114 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 8, 1974, President Gerald R. Ford granted a "full, free, and absolute pardon" to former President Richard Nixon covering his entire term ...