This day in History: 1970 - Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in...

This day in History: 1966 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona, establishing the principle that all...

This day in History - 1944: Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military...

This day in History: 1921 - Thousands of white citizens in Tulsa, Oklahoma descended on the city’s predominantly Black Greenwood...

This day in History: 1934 - Notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police...

This day in History: 1929 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its first awards, at a dinner party for around 250...

This day in History: 1906 - At 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California,...

This day in History: 1968 - Just after 6 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his...

This day in History: 1979 - At 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, the worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when...

This day in History: 1965 - In the name of African American voting rights, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators in Alabama, led by Martin...