Today's Highlight in History: On February 28th, 1854, some 50 slavery opponents met in Ripon, Wisconsin, to call for creation of a new political g...
Today's Highlight in History: On February 29th, 1940, "Gone with the Wind" won eight Academy Awards, including best picture of 1939. On ...
Today's Highlight in History: On March first, 1932, the infant son of Anne and Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell,...
Today's Highlight in History: On March third, 1931, "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became the national anthem of the United State...
Today's Highlight in History: On March fourth, 1789, the Constitution of the United States went into effect as the first Federal Congress met in N...
Today's Highlight in History: On March fifth, 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of coloni...
Today's Highlight in History: On March sixth, 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege. On this date: In...
Today's Highlight in History: On March seventh, 1850, in a three-hour speech to the US Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a...
Today's Highlight in History: On March eighth, 1854, US Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan. Within a month, he concluded ...
Today's Highlight in History: On March ninth, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclads "Monitor" and "Virginia" (formerly &qu...