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Also on this day in 2020 migrants and refugees hoping to enter Greece from Turkey appeared to be fanning out across a broader swathe of the ro…
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Before World War II, almost 500 service cars plied St. Louis and its suburbs, charging five-cent fares. Cabbies loathed them because they siph…
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The movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, had its world p…
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Martin, Daniel Craig, Jon Bon Jovi, Nath…
In 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scores an NBA-record 100 points to lead the Philadelphia Warriors to a 169-147 triumph over the New York Knicks in H…
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In 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the spectators’ gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members o…
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In 2014, Jaromir Jagr becomes the seventh player to score 700 NHL goals during New Jersey Devils’ 6-1 victory over the New York Islanders.
In 1893, inventor Nikola Tesla first publicly demonstrated radio during a meeting of the National Electric Light Association in St. Louis by t…
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The famous flyer ready vows to pay any sum to get his toddler son back safe.
As the Cardinals start their exhibition season today, we get a bit nostalgic for spring trainings from the past.
In 2013, Benedict XVI became the first pope in 600 years to resign, ending an eight-year pontificate, and more events that happened on this da…
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Bernadette Peters, Gilbert Gottfried, Jason Aldean, John Turturro, …
Elliott See and Charles Bassett were the lead crew for Gemini IX, a mission scheduled for May 1966, all part of the learning curve in the race…
The Associated Press has won 31 Pulitzer prizes for photography, since the award was established in 1917. Each day we offer a curated collecti…
Also on this day in 2020 NATO envoys held emergency talks at the request of Turkey, a NATO member, and scores of migrants began converging on …
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The Arena was built in 1929 to be the home of livestock shows, but over the following 70 years, it hosted basketball, soccer, hockey, circuses…
Operation Desert Storm came to a conclusion as President George H.W. Bush declared that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated,” and mo…
Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Adrian Smith, James Worthy, Josh Groban, Kate Mara, Lindsey Morgan,…
In 2010, Steven Holcomb drives USA-1 to the Olympic gold medal in four-man bobsledding, ending a 62-year drought for the Americans in the even…
The Associated Press has won 31 Pulitzer prizes for photography, since the award was established in 1917. Each day we offer a curated collecti…
Also on this day in 2020, dozens of policemen deployed to two eastern Greek islands to quell protests over planned new migrant detention cente…
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