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"Jaws" released in theaters
This day in History: 1970 - Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in...
The Miranda rights are established
This day in History: 1966 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona, establishing the principle that all...
D-Day: Allies storm Normandy’s coast
This day in History - 1944: Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military...
Tulsa Race Massacre begins
This day in History: 1921 - Thousands of white citizens in Tulsa, Oklahoma descended on the city’s predominantly Black Greenwood...
Police kill famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde
This day in History: 1934 - Notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police...
First Academy Awards ceremony
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...
The Great San Francisco Earthquake topples buildings, killing thousands
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,...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
This day in History: 1968 - Just after 6 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his...
Nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island
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...
Martin Luther King Jr. begins the march from Selma to Montgomery
This day in History: 1965 - In the name of African American voting rights, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators in Alabama, led by Martin...
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