All Episodes

FEB 25. John Quincy Adams’ son marries relative at the White House

FEB 24. Marbury v. Madison establishes judicial review

FEB 23. Formula One champ kidnapped

FEB 22. The U.S. acquires Spanish Florida

FEB 21. Washington Monument dedicated

FEB 20. Ireland allows sale of contraceptives

FEB 19. U.S. Marines invade Iwo Jima

FEB 18. Pluto discovered

FEB 17. Voice of America begins broadcasts to Russia

FEB 16. U.S. Navy stages daring mission during First Barbary War

FEB 15. The USS Maine explodes in Cuba's Havana Harbor

FEB 14. "Pale Blue Dot" photo of Earth is taken

FEB 13. League of Nations recognizes perpetual Swiss neutrality

FEB 12. President Bill Clinton acquitted on both articles of impeachment

FEB 11. Yalta conference ends

FEB 10. U.S.-Soviet spy swap

FEB 9. The Normandie catches fire

FEB 8. Americans secure Guadalcanal

FEB 7. The Beatles arrive in New York

FEB 6. Mussolini fires his son-in-law

FEB 5. FDR announces “court-packing” plan

FEB 4. Ford buys Lincoln.

FEB 3. Lunik 9 soft-lands on lunar surface

FEB 2. First groundhog day

FEB 1. Oxford Dictionary debuts

JAN 31. Truman announces development of H-bomb

JAN 30. "Bloody Sunday" in Northern Ireland

JAN 29. Kansas enters the Union

JAN 28. The space shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff

JAN 27. National Geographic Society founded

JAN 26. Tennessee passes nation’s first prohibition law

JAN 25. World’s largest diamond found

JAN 24. Walt Disney announces $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar

JAN 23. Toy company Wham-O produces first Frisbees

JAN 22.British colonists reach New Zealand

JAN 21. President Carter pardons draft dodgers

JAN 20. Mud March begins

JAN 19. First air raid on Britain

JAN 18. MLB owners approve interleague play

JAN 17. Ireland grants a divorce for the first time in the country's history

JAN 16. “Moon Maniac” killer is executed

JAN 15. Great Boston Molasses Flood

JAN 14. Explosion rocks USS Enterprise

JAN 13. Johnny Cash performs at Folsom Prison

JAN 12. Hattie Wyatt Caraway becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate

JAN 11. Theodore Roosevelt makes Grand Canyon a national monument

JAN 10. FDR introduces the lend-lease program

JAN 9. Columbus mistakes manatees for mermaids

JAN 8. President Wilson delivers "Fourteen Points" speech

JAN 7. A case of split personality in puzzling Chicago murders

JAN 6. New Mexico joins the Union

JAN 5. Bodies of family killed by United Mine Workers found

JAN 4. Colt sells his first revolvers to the U.S. government

JAN 3. Benito Mussolini declares himself dictator of Italy

JAN 2. The Yorkshire Ripper is apprehended

JAN 1. A Nebraska farmer files the first homestead claim

DEC 31. Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent light

DEC 30. USSR established

DEC 29. Archbishop Thomas Becket is murdered

DEC 28. John C. Calhoun resigns vice presidency

DEC 27. Office of Price Administration begins to ration automobile tires

DEC 26. U.S. government takes over control of nation’s railroads

DEC 25. George Washington crosses the Delaware

DEC 24. Fire destroys Thomas Jefferson library

DEC 23. van Gogh chops off his ear

DEC 22. Churchill and Roosevelt discuss war and peace

DEC 21. Charles de Gaulle elected president of France

DEC 20. NATO assumes peacekeeping duties in Bosnia

DEC 19. Last lunar mission

DEC 18. Mayflower arrives in Plymouth

DEC 17. 1st Airplane flies

DEC 16. Boston Tea party

DEC 15. Architect of the Holocaust sentenced

DEC 14. George Washington dies

DEC 13. Texas seven

DEC 12. 1ST radio transmission across Atlantic

DEC 11. UNICEF

DEC 10. 1 millionth Ford.

DEC 9. San Antonio captured

DEC 8. John Lennon shot

DEC 7. Death by lethal injection

DEC 6. Halifax explosion.

DEC 5. Brooklyn theater fire

DEC 4. Deadly Smog

DEC 3. Armistice in first Balkan War

DEC 2. Monroe Doctrine

DEC 1. Antarctica a military free zone

NOV 30. Battle of Franklin, TN

NOV 29. Coffee rations

NOV 28. Plane crash in Antarctica

NOV 27. President Taft

NOV 26. Official Thanksgiving holiday

NOV 25. "Storm of the century"

NOV 24. Lee Harvey Oswald killed

NOV 23. Boss Tweed

NOV 22. Stealth Bomber.

NOV 21. Brittanic sinks

NOV 20. Ship sunk by a whale

NOV 19. Gettysburg address

NOV 18. Jonestown suicide