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 fifth, 1792, George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for appo...
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 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 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 tenth, 1925, the novel "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published by Scribne...
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 12, 1861, the American Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. On thi...
Today's Highlight in History: On April 13th, 1970, "Apollo 13," four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing ...
Today's Highlight in History: On April 14th, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy...