Today is Saturday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2025. There are 109 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 13, 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian ...
Today is Friday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2025. There are 110 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system.
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In 1857, the S.S. Central America (also ...
Today in History: Sept. 11, al-Qaeda attacks the United States
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Today is Thursday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2025. There are 111 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers ...
Today in History: Sept. 10, Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearings begin
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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2025. There are 112 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 10, 1991, the Senate Judiciary ...
Today in History: Sept. 9, Attica prison uprising begins
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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2025. There are 113 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica ...
Today in History: Sept. 8, Ford pardons Nixon
Today is Monday, Sept. 8, the 251st day of 2025. There are 114 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 8, 1974, one month after taking office, President Gerald R. Ford granted a "full, free, and absolute pardon" to former President ...
Today in History: September 5, Munich Olympics massacre
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Today is Friday, Sept. 5, the 248th day of 2025. There are 117 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian militants attacked the Israeli Olympic ...
Today is Friday, Sept. 5, the 248th day of 2025. There are 117 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian militants attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games, killing two and taking nine others hostage; five of the militants, a German police ...
Today is Thursday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2025. There are 118 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 4, 1949, more than 140 people were injured following a performance by singer Paul Robeson in Peekskill, New York, as an anti-Communist mob attacked departing ...
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 3, the 246th day of 2025. There are 119 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 3, 1783, representatives of the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War and recognized U.S. sovereignty.
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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2025. There are 120 days left in the year.
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On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.
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In 1666, the Great Fire of London began, ...
Today is Saturday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of 2025. There are 123 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 30, 1916, on his fourth attempt, explorer Ernest Shackelton successfully returned to Elephant Island in Antarctica to rescue 22 of his stranded crew members, who had survived on ...
Today is Friday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2025. There are 124 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in southeast Louisiana, breaching levees and spurring floods that devastated New Orleans. Katrina caused nearly 1,400 deaths ...
Today is Thursday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2025. There are 125 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech before an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln ...
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Today is Wednesday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2025. There are 126 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions. The explosions (which could be heard 3,000 miles away) ...
Today in History: August 26, De Gaulle leads victory march through Paris
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Today is Tuesday, Aug. 26, the 238th day of 2025. There are 127 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 26, 1944, French Gen. Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German ...
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Today is Monday, Aug. 25, the 237th day of 2025. There are 128 days left in the year.
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On August 25, 1916, Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act, establishing the National Park Service as an agency of the U.S. ...
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Today is Saturday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2025. There are 130 days left in the year.
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On Aug 23, 1970, the Salad Bowl strike began, organized by farm labor leader Cesar Chavez; between 5,000 to 10,000 laborers walked off the job, leading ...
Today is Friday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2025. There are 131 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 22, 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America's Cup.
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Today is Thursday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2025. There are 132 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 21, 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 white people; scores of Black people were killed in retribution in ...