At a banquet to be given by a group of leading picture people at the Biltmore ... A STAR IS BORN: The first U.S. astronaut went into space on this day in 1961. Alan Shepard, aboard Freedom 7 ...

With over 5,000 players in NBA history, at least one player was born on every day of the calendar year – including three leap ...

So, too, the yearly Indianapolis Memorial Day speed race is the outstanding event for the Knights of the Roaring Road and is witnessed by more people than ... Robinson was born on this day in ...

With over 5,000 players in NBA history, at least one player was born on every day of the calendar year – including three Leap ...

Though the U.S. honors workers in September — with Labor Day, which also has Chicago roots — the May 1886 events are commemorated in Chicago by a memorial on Desplaines Street, north of Randolph ...

Though the U.S. honors workers in September — with Labor Day, which also has Chicago roots ... Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, center, walks unrecognized by people in Chicago in 1961.

Today in history, ‘Righteous among the nations’ Oskar Schindler, who saved approximately 1,200 Jews from death during the Holocaust, was born ... of innocent people, something was triggered ...

DENISON, Texas (KXII) - Eighty years ago, on May 8, 1945, Nazi terror was stopped in it’s tracks. German dictator Adolph ...

Next door, Señor Calvo kept his horse in his backyard stable, ready to pull his popcorn cart through the streets. This in a ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... An artist who was born on VE Day has shared memories of growing up in the aftermath of the Second World War, when she resorted ...

Across the nation’s capital, Catholics joyously welcomed the news of the church’s first U.S.-born pope. “I never thought in ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening the most ...