This day in History: 2011 - In a ceremony held in Baghdad on December 15, 2011, the war that began in 2003 with the American-led invasion of Iraq officially comes to an end . But violence continued and in fact worsened over the subsequent years. The withdrawal of American troops had been a priority of President Barack Obama , but by the time he left office the United States would again be conducting military operations in Iraq. Five days after the 9/11 attacks , President Ge

This day in History: 1980 - John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles , the rock group that transformed popular music in the 1960s , is shot and killed by an obsessed fan in New York City . The 40-year-old artist was entering his luxury Manhattan apartment building when Mark David Chapman shot him four times at close range with a .38-caliber revolver. Lennon, bleeding profusely, was rushed to the hospital but died en route. Chapman had received an autograph from Lennon ear

This day in History: 1955 - In Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott , organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr. , followed Park’s historic act of civil disobedience. “The mother of the civil rights movement,” as Rosa Parks is known, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913. She worked as a seamst

This day in History: 1859 - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, a groundbreaking scientific work by British naturalist Charles Darwin, is published in England on November 24, 1859. Darwin’s theory argued that organisms gradually evolve through a process he called “natural selection.” In natural selection, organisms with genetic variations that suit their environment tend to propagate more descendants than organisms of the same species that lack the variat

This day in History: 1792 - The cornerstone is laid for a presidential residence in the newly designated capital city of Washington, D.C . In 1800, President John Adams became the first president to reside in the executive mansion, which soon became known as the “White House” because its white-gray Virginia freestone contrasted strikingly with the red brick of nearby buildings. The city of Washington was created to replace Philadelphia as the nation’s capital because of its

This day in History: 1982 - Three Chicago area residents become ill and die after ingesting Extra-Strength Tylenol later found to be...

This day in History: 1956 - The King of Rock and Roll teams up with TV’s reigning variety program, as Elvis Presley appears on “The Ed...

This day in History: 1944 - After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the...

This day in History: 1991 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest during a coup by high-ranking members of...

This day in History: 1934 - A group of federal prisoners classified as “most dangerous” arrives at Alcatraz Island , a 22-acre rocky...