By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2025. There are 273 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, the Polish pope born Karol Jozef Wojtyla, died in his Vatican apartment at age 84. The first non-Italian pope in over 450 ...

By The Associated Press Today in history: On March 31, 1968, at the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned listeners by declaring, “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your ...

By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, March 29, the 88th day of 2025. There are 277 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 29, 1974, a group of Chinese farmers digging a well struck fragments of terra-cotta buried underground; archaeologists would ultimately discover ...

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, March 28, the 87th day of 2025. There are 278 days left in the year. Today 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 ...

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 27, the 86th day of 2025. There are 279 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 27, 2022, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony, winning the Oscar for best actor just minutes later. (Smith ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, March 26, the 85th day of 2025. There are 280 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 26, 2024, Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by a container ship, killing six maintenance workers on the bridge. ...