Today In History

Today is Tuesday, March 29, the 88th day of 2011. There are 277 days left in the year. In 1790, the tenth president of the United States, John Tyler, was born in Charles City County, Va. In 1973, the last United States combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War...

Today is Monday, March 28, the 87th day of 2011. There are 278 days left in the year. On March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa...

Today is Thursday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2011. There are 282 days left in the year. In 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez (vahl-DEEZ') ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude oil...

Today is Wednesday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2011. There are 283 days left in the year. In 1806, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east. In 1919, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy...

Today is Tuesday, March 22, the 81st day of 2011. There are 284 days left in the year. On March 22, 1765, Britain enacted the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act was repealed the following year.) In 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy...

Today is Monday, March 21, the 80th day of 2011. There are 285 days left in the year. In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. Ten years ago: Space shuttle Discovery glided to a predawn touchdown, bringing home the first residents of the international space station...

Today is Friday, March 18, the 77th day of 2011. There are 288 days left in the year. In 1837, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, N.J. In 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether...

Today is Thursday, March 17, the 76th day of 2011. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick's Day. In A.D. 461 (or A.D. 493, depending on sources), St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died in Saul. In 1966, a U...