2+ week, 5+ day ago   (575+ words) Today is the 237th day of 2026 and the 66th day of summer. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation establishing the National Park Service. In 1944, Allied troops liberated Paris after four years of German occupation. In 1950, President Harry Truman ordered the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (562+ words) Today is the 236th day of 2026 and the 65th day of summer. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1814, British forces invaded Washington, D.C. and set fire to the White House. In 1949, President Harry Truman formally announced that the North Atlantic Treaty was in effect. In 1981, Mark…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (614+ words) Today is the 235th day of 2026 and the 64th day of summer. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1305, Scottish leader William Wallace was executed in London. In 1939, Germany's Adolf Hitler and the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin signed a nonaggression pact. In 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (632+ words) Today is the 233rd day of 2026 and the 62nd day of summer. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1858, senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held the first of their seven debates. In 1863, pro-Confederate guerillas led by William Quantrill raided the pro-Union town of Lawrence,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (626+ words) Today is the 232nd day of 2026 and the 61st day of summer. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1940, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, allocating nearly $1 billion in an unprecedented anti-poverty measure....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (617+ words) Today is the 231st day of 2026 and the 60th day of summer. In 1934, a German plebiscite voted to grant then-Chancellor Adolf Hitler the additional office of president. In 1960, captured American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was sentenced in Moscow to three…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (645+ words) Today is the 230th day of 2026 and the 59th day of summer. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1587, Virginia Dare became the first English child born in the Americas. In 1590, Roanoke Island governor John White returned from a supply trip to England to find the…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (605+ words) Today is the 228th day of 2026 and the 57th day of summer. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln prohibited Union states from trading with states that had seceded. In 1896, gold was discovered near the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory, sparking a…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (574+ words) Today is the 227th day of 2026 and the 56th day of summer. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1483, the Vatican's Sistine Chapel was consecrated. In 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened. In 1947, India and Pakistan won independence from Britain. In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon canceled the direct…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (610+ words) Today is the 226th day of 2026 and the 55th day of summer. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, guaranteeing income for retirees and the unemployed. In 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced Japan's unconditional surrender and the end of…...