Thomas Jefferson

Today is Wednesday, March 16, the 75th day of 2011. There are 290 days left in the year. On March 16, 1802, President Thomas Jefferson signed a measure authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. In 1994, figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Ore...

Today is Thursday, March 10, the 69th day of 2011. There are 296 days left in the year. On March 10, 1876, the first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, "Mr...