By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, April 2, the 93rd day of 2024. There are 273 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, the Polish pope born Karol Jozef Wojtyla, who became one of the most influential leaders of the 20th and early 21st ...
By The Associated Press Today is Monday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2024. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool’s Day. Today’s Highlights in History: On April 1, 1972, the first Major League Baseball players’ strike began; it lasted 12 days. Twenty years later, on ...
By The Associated Press Today is Friday, March 29, the 89th day of 2024. There are 277 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 29, 1973, the last United States combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America’s direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. On ...
By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 28, the 88th day of 2024. 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 ...
By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, March 27, the 87th day of 2024. There are 279 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 27, 1973, “The Godfather” won the Academy Award for best picture of 1972, but its star, Marlon Brando, refused to accept his Oscar ...
By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, March 26, the 86th day of 2024. There are 280 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate techno-religious cult who committed suicide were found inside a rented mansion ...