Today in History: December 5, Nelson Mandela dies at 95 By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Dec. 5, the 339th day of 2025. There are 26 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 5, 2013, Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first Black ...
Today in History: December 4, Terry Anderson freed after nearly seven years as hostage By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Dec. 4, the 338th day of 2025. There are 27 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 4, 1991, after being abducted and held hostage for nearly seven ...
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2025. There are 28 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 3, 1984, a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India, causing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 deaths and more than 500,000 injuries. Also on this date: In 1947, the Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened on Broadway. In 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 ...
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2025. There are 29 days left in the year. Today 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 chest of Barney Clark, a retired dentist who lived 112 days with the device. Also on this date: In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France in a coronation ceremony at Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral. In 1823, President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing further European expansion or colonialism in the Western ...
Today is Monday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2025. There are 30 days left in the year. Today 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 segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The incident sparked a yearlong ...
Today in History: November 28, the debut of the Grand Ole Opry By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2025. There are 33 days left in the year. Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. Today in history: On Nov. 28, 1925, the Grand Ole Opry (known then as the WSM Barn Dance) debuted on radio station WSM in Nashville, Tennessee; it continues today as the longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. history. Also on this date: In 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now ...
