Today's Highlight in History: On April eleventh, 1970, Apollo 13 blasted off on its ill-fated mission to the moon. (The astronauts managed to retu...
Today's Highlight in History: On April tenth, 1925, the novel "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published by Scribne...
Today's Highlight in History: On April eighth, 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Ange...
Today's Highlight in History: On April seventh, 1927, an audience in New York saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in the first succe...
Today's Highlight in History: On April sixth, 1909, explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. ...
Today's Highlight in History: On April fifth, 1792, George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for appo...
Today's Highlight in History: On April second, 1917, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must ...
Today's Highlight in History: On April first, 1945, American forces invaded Okinawa during World War Two. On this date: In 1789, the US House of R...
Today's Highlight in History: On March 31st, 1889, French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Towe...
Today's Highlight in History: On March 30th, 1867, US Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory...