This day in History: 1920 - Karol Jozef Wojtyla is born in the Polish town of Wadowice, 35 miles southwest of Krakow. Wojtyla went on to...

This day in History: 1934 - A massive storm sends millions of tons of topsoil flying from across the parched Great Plains region of the...

This day in History: 1970 - In Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent...

This day in History: 4977 BC - The universe is created, according to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, considered a...

This day in History: 1999 - Two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, south...

This day in History: 1997 - A 21-year-old Tiger Woods wins the prestigious Masters Tournament by a record 12 strokes in Augusta, Georgia....

This day in History: 1917 - Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of...

This day in History: 1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by a deranged drifter named...

This day in History: 1839 - the initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll...

This day in History: 1802 - The United States Military Academy–the first military school in the United States–is founded by Congress for...