By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, March 30, the 89th day of 2019. There are 276 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million, ...
Today is Friday, March 29, the 88th day of 2019. There are 277 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 29, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted in New York of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. (They were executed in June 1953.) On this ...
Today is Thursday, March 28, the 87th day of 2019. There are 278 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 28, 1979, America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred with a partial meltdown inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, ...
Today is Wednesday, March 27, the 86th day of 2019. There are 279 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 27, 1977, in aviation’s worst disaster, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off in heavy fog, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on an ...
Today is Tuesday, March 26, the 85th day of 2019. There are 280 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 26, 1979, a peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and witnessed by President Jimmy Carter at the ...
Today is Monday, March 25, the 84th day of 2019. There are 281 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 25, 1911, 146 people, mostly young female immigrants, were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York. On this date: In 1634, English ...
Today is Sunday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2019. There are 282 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320, crashed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board; investigators said the jetliner was deliberately ...
Today is Saturday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2019. There are 283 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 23, 1942, the first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, California. On this date: In ...
By The Associated Press Today is Friday, March 22, the 81st day of 2019. There are 284 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. The ...
By the Associated Press Today is Friday, March 15, the 74th day of 2019. There are 291 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 15, 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius. On this date: In ...
By the Associated Press Today is Friday, March 15, the 74th day of 2019. There are 291 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 15, 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius. On this date: In ...
By the Associated Press Today is Wednesday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2019. There are 293 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 13, 1954, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu began during the First Indochina War as Viet Minh forces attacked French troops, who were ...
By The Associated Press Today is Monday, March 11, the 70th day of 2019. There are 295 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 11, 1985, Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Konstantin U. Chernenko as general secretary of the Soviet Communist ...
By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, March 10, the 69th day of 2019. There are 296 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tennessee (on his 41st birthday) to assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King ...
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, March 9, the 68th day of 2019. There are 297 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 9, 1933, Congress, called into special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, began its "hundred days" of enacting New Deal ...
By The Associated Press Today is Friday, March 8, the 67th day of 2019. There are 298 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 8, 1702, England’s Queen Anne acceded to the throne upon the death of King William III. On this date: In 1618, German astronomer ...
By The Associated Press Today is Monday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2019. There are 302 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as America’s 32nd president. On this date: In 1791, Vermont became the 14th state. In ...
By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, March 3, the 62nd day of 2019. There are 303 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 3, 1974, a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris, killing all 346 people on board. On this ...
By The Associated Press Today’s Highlight in History: On March 2, 1933, the motion picture “King Kong” had its world premiere at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy. On this date: In 1793, the first (and third) president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born ...
By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2019. There are 306 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 28, 1942, the heavy cruiser USS Houston and the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth were attacked by Japanese forces during the World ...