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San Francisco Giants pitcher Masanori Murakami poses for a photo in San Francisco on Sept. 1, 1964. Murakami is the first native-born Japanese to play for an American Major League team. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

Today in History: September 1, first Japanese baseball player makes MLB debut

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September 1, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Pitcher Masanori Murakami of the San Francisco Giants became the first Japanese baseball player to...

** FILE ** Police services prepare to take away the damaged car in the Pont d’Alma tunnel in Paris in which Diana, Princess of Wales, was traveling in this Aug. 31, 1997 file photo. Ten years ago – Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash in Paris with her friend, Dodi Fayed, on August 31, 1997. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) * zu unserem KORR. **

Today in History: August 31, Princess Diana dies in Paris tunnel crash

By Associated Press

August 31, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed after the car she was riding in crashed in...

Thurgood Marshall leaves the Justice Department after being confirmed by the Senate as the nation’s first black Supreme Court Justice, Aug. 30, 1967. Marshall, 57, currently U.S. Solicitor General, was confirmed by a 69 to 11 margin. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

Today in History: August 30, Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first Black Supreme Court justice

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August 30, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first Black justice on the...

FILE – In this Aug. 30, 2005 file photo, floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans. The most destructive storm in U.S. history and also one of the deadliest, Katrina was a Category 3 storm with estimated maximum winds of 125 mph when it made landfall near Buras, La., on Aug. 29, 2005. Broken levees left most of New Orleans inundated. Damage was estimated at $75 billion, though rebuilding costs have far exceeded the initial damage. Katrina was blamed for around 1,200 deaths. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Today in History: August 29, Hurricane Katrina strikes Louisiana

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August 29, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in southeast Louisiana, breaching levees and spurring floods...

**FILE** An Aug. 28, 1968 file photo shows National Guardsmen lining the street as they are confronted by protesters in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago, headquarters for the 1968 Democratic National Convention. While the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Aug. 25-28 won’t look anything like that one, much of what will happen _ and won’t happen _ is a direct result of what unfolded in Chicago when, as the protesters shouted, “The whole world is watching.” That includes the nomination of Barack Obama, just four years removed from being an obscure Illinois state senator. (AP Photo/File)

Today in History: August 28, police, protesters clash outside Democratic National Convention

By Associated Press

August 28, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention...

FILE – Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves with his family and his running mate’s family after his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Aug. 28, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Today in History: August 27, Barack Obama becomes first Black presidential nominee by a major political party

By Associated Press

August 27, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver, becoming the...

393921 02: Fans of R&B singer Aaliyah watch a horse-drawn carriage carry her coffin towards St. Ignatius Loyola Church August 31, 2001 during her funeral in New York City. The 22-year-old singer died August 25 in a plane crash in the Bahamas. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Today in History: August 25, singer Aaliyah killed in plane crash

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August 25, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

R&B singer Aaliyah was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas;...

Carl Probyn, 60, stepfather of Jaycee Lee Dugard who went missing in 1991, holds photos of his stepdaughter at his home in Orange, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Today in History: August 26, Jaycee Dugard found alive after 18 years

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August 25, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard was discovered alive in California after being missing for more than...

Members of the International Astronomic Union (IAU), vote on a resolution for planet definition during the IAU 26th General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic on Thursday, Aug. 24th 2006. The world’s leading astronomers voted on Pluto being newly classified and called as “Dwarf Planet”. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Today in History: August 24, Pluto demoted to dwarf planet

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August 24, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a full-fledged planet, demoting it...

The sheriff of Buckskin Joe Frontier Town, center, dispatches an outlaw during a mock gunfight as a dead cowboy lies in the dust on Main Street Thursday afternoon, May 22, 2003. The town, west of Canon City near Royal Gorge, was assembled with historic original buildings moved to the area; it has been the setting for many western movies. (Photo by Jerry Cleveland/The Denver Post)

Colorado ghost towns capture our imaginations of old-time mountain living

By Noelle Phillips

August 23, 2026 at 10:30 a.m.

Ghost towns capture our imaginations — haunted or not.

Former Catholic priest John Geoghan listens during a hearing in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass., in this Nov. 5, 2001 photo. The Massachusetts Appeals Court has vacated Geoghan’s conviction for indecent assault and battery after he was allegedly strangled and beaten to death by a fellow inmate on August 23, 2003. (AP Photo/Patricia McDonnell)

Today in History: August 23, former priest, convicted child molester dies in prison attack

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August 23, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal...

A memorial at the New Hope Community Church for Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Hubbard and Marine Cpl. Jeremiah Baro is shown with a photo of Army Cpl. Nathan Hubbard, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007, in Clovis, Calif. Nathan Hubbard was among 14 U.S. soldiers aboard a Black Hawk helicopter killed when it crashed Wednesday in northern Iraq. Jared Hubbard, one of Nathan’s brothers, was killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi in 2004. A third brother, Jason Hubbard, will be returning home from Iraq to be with his family, said Clovis police spokeswoman Janet Stoll-Lee. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

Today in History: August 22, helicopter crash in Iraq kills 14 US soldiers

By Associated Press

August 22, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

A Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard.

The Benjamin Franklin House is pictured in central London, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Ben Franklin chose America. Son William chose the crown. This civil war is a microcosm of revolution

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August 21, 2026 at 8:01 a.m.

William Franklin's tomb is a reminder the American Revolution was a civil war.

Airport security men lift the body of former Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. into a security van after killing the Senator?s assassin, on the ground, Aug. 21, 1983 in Manila. Aquino died with a single bullet wound to the back of the head, officials said. The body at left is reported to be the assassin. (AP Photo)

Today in History: August 21, Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. assassinated

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August 21, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated as he exited an aircraft at Manila...

** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY AUG. 20 ** FILE **Members of the Edmond Police department and other law enforcement officials stand out front of the Edmond Post Office, Aug. 20, 1986. On Aug. 20, 1986, Patrick Henry Sherrill, an ex-Marine and small arms instructor for the Oklahoma Air National Guard, tucked two .45-caliber pistols into his postal satchel, locked the doors and systematically killed 14 people before killing himself inside a suburban Oklahoma City post office. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Today in History: August 20, postal employee goes on deadly rampage in Oklahoma

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August 20, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in...

Iran Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh waves after arriving at N. Y. International Airport in Idlewild, Queens from his native land on Oct. 8, 1951. The aged, ailing premier is in the U.S. to plead his country’s case before the U.N. Security Council on the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. (AP Photo)

Today in History: August 19, Iran’s elected prime minister overthrown in US-backed coup

By Associated Press

August 19, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq, was overthrown in a coup backed by the U.S....

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – AUGUST 21: A large television screen near Manchester Crown Court broadcasts the judge sentencing convicted hospital nurse Lucy Letby on August 21, 2023 in Manchester, England. Lucy Letby, a former nurse at Countess of Cheshire Hospital, was sentenced to 14 whole-life orders for murdering seven babies, and attempting to murder six more, in the hospital’s neonatal ward between 2015 and 2016. She was found not guilty of two counts of attempted murder, while the jury did not reach verdicts on six further counts of attempted murder. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Today in History: August 18, former British nurse found guilty of murdering 7 babies

By Associated Press

August 18, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

A former neonatal nurse in a British hospital was found guilty of murdering seven babies...

The “Kind of Blue” album cover is on display at Bull Moose record store in Portland, Maine, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019 on the 60th anniversary of the album’s release. (AP Photo/David Sharp)

Today in History: August 17, Miles Davis releases ‘Kind of Blue’

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August 17, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Trumpeter Miles Davis released “Kind of Blue,” regarded as one of the most influential jazz...

Celebrants raise their hands as the sun rises over the northwestern New Mexico landscape near Chaco Canyon, N.M., Aug. 16, 1987. About a thousand people participated in various activities, part of the “harmonic convergence” including chanting, prayer and meditation. (AP Photo/David Breslauer)

Today in History: August 16, ‘Harmonic Convergence’ celebrated around the world

By Associated Press

August 16, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

People worldwide began a two-day celebration of the “Harmonic Convergence,” which heralded what believers called...

FILE– This is a Saturday, Aug. 15, 1998 file photo showing Royal Ulster Constabulary Police officers stand on Market Street, the scene of a car bombing in the centre of Omagh, Co Tyrone, 72 miles west of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Four IRA dissidents were found liable Monday June 8, 2009 for the worst terrorist attack in Northern Ireland in a landmark civil case brought by the families of the 29 people killed in the Omagh bombing. (AP Photo / Paul McErlane)

Today in History: August 15, car bomb kills 29 in Northern Ireland

By Associated Press

August 15, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

29 people were killed by a car bomb that tore apart the center of Omagh,,...

FILE – In this Friday, Aug. 14, 1936 file picture, a large crowd watches as attendants adjust a black hood over Rainey Bethea’s head just before his public hanging in Owensboro, Ky. Bethea, a 22-year-old black man convicted of raping a 70-year-old white woman, was the last person killed in a public execution in the United States. America’s executions have changed dramatically over the years, morphing from day-long events in the town square to somber and tightly controlled affairs held deep inside prisons. (AP File Photo)

Today in History: August 14, thousands gather for last public execution in US

By Associated Press

August 14, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

In front of an estimated 20,000 spectators, Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, in...

FILE – In this Aug. 13, 1969 file photo, amid ticker tape and American flags, Apollo 11 astronauts wave to welcoming New Yorkers during parade up lower Broadway on Wednesday, in New York. The spacemen, from left, are Michael Collins, Edwin Aldrin, Jr., and Neil A. Armstrong. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams, file)

Today in History: August 13, New York throws ticker tape parade for Apollo 11 astronauts

By Associated Press

August 13, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

New York City held a ticker-tape parade for Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz”...

Soldiers and firemen sift through debris in search of possibly more survivors after they found three women alive under the big chunk of debri, shown at right, at the crash site of a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 in Komoro, Japan, on Tuesday, August 13, 1985. The search and rescue operation was launch at the daybreak when military and police officials finally pinned down the exact location of Monday, night?s crash ? on Mt. Osutaka, 70 miles northwest of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

Today in History: August 12, Japan Airlines flight crashes into mountain, killing 520

By Associated Press

August 12, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

The world’s worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a...

FILE – DJ Kool Herc speaks at a news conference to launch “Hip-Hop Won’t Stop: The Beat, The Rhymes, The Life,” the first ever hip-hop initiative at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in New York, Feb. 28, 2006. In the five decades since hip-hop emerged out of New York City, it has spread around the country and the world. Those looking for a hip-hop starting point have landed on one, turning this year into a 50th-birthday celebration. Aug. 11, 1973 was the date a young Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc around his Bronx stomping grounds, deejayed a back-to-school party for his younger sister in the community room of an apartment building on Sedgwick Avenue. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, file)

Today in History: August 11, DJ Kool Herc’s record breaks gives birth to hip-hop

By Associated Press

August 11, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

At a house party in the Bronx, 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc began extending the musical...

New York City medical examiner personnel leave their vehicle and walk to the Manhattan Correctional Center where financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, Saturday Aug. 10, 2019, in New York. He was found in his cell at the Manhattan Correctional Center Saturday morning, according to the officials, who was briefed on the matter but spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss it publicly. The medical examiner’s office in Manhattan confirmed Epstein’s death. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Today in History: August 10, Jeffrey Epstein found dead in jail cell

By Associated Press

August 10, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Jeffrey Epstein, accused of orchestrating a sex-trafficking ring and sexually abusing dozens of underage girls,...

U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger, right, administers the oath of office to Gerald R. Ford as the 38th President of the United States in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Aug. 9, 1974. Betty Ford holds the bible at center. (AP Photo)

Today in History: August 9, Gerald Ford declares ‘our long national nightmare is over’

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August 9, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Gerald Ford took the oath of office to become U.S. president after Richard Nixon’s resignation;...

Police stand guard over a robbed mail train at Euston Station in London on the morning of August 8, 1963, after robbers held up the train at Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, UK, 40 miles from London. The train, carrying a good deal of registered mail, was on the final stretch of a 400 mile journey from Glasgow when the raiders struck. They unloaded over 100 registered mail bags into a waiting truck and one railway official has estimated that the value of the stolen mail might be as much as £200,000. (AP Photo)

Today in History: August 8, ‘Great Train Robbery’ thieves get away with millions

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August 8, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in...

FILE – This Aug. 2, 1978 file photo shows a fence and a sign cordoning off a contaminated toxic waste dump site in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, N.Y. With Love Canal getting national attention, President Jimmy Carter in 1978 issued a disaster declaration that eventually led to evacuation and compensation for more than 900 families. The crisis also led to federal Superfund legislation to clean up the nation’s abandoned waste sites. (AP Photo/File)

Today in History: August 7, Love Canal environmental disaster declared a federal health emergency

By Associated Press

August 7, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

President Jimmy Carter declared the Love Canal environmental disaster in Niagara Falls, N.Y., a federal...

US President Lyndon B Johnson hands a pen to civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr during the the signing of the voting rights act as officials look on behind them, Washington DC, August 6, 1965. (Photo by Washington Bureau/Getty Images)

Today in History: August 6, President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act

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August 6, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.

Toys for her dog – a lamb and a teddy bear — lie on the backyard grass of the home of Marilyn Monroe after she was found dead in Hollywood, August 5, 1962. Police found them in this position when they arrived to find the star dead in her bed, a bottle of sleeping pills nearby. A newswoman stands at left. (AP Photo/Harold Filan)

Today in History: August 5, Marilyn Monroe found dead at her home

By Associated Press

August 5, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Marilyn Monroe, 36, was found dead in her Los Angeles home; her death was ruled...

A man walks on the sandbank by the wreckage of a WWII German warship, emerged due to the drought, in front of Djerdap II, a large dam on the Danube River, between Romania and Serbia, near Prahovo, Serbia, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

The Danube River’s water is dropping so low that World War II ships are emerging

By Associated Press

August 7, 2026 at 5:48 p.m.

The emerging ships belonged to Nazi Germany’s Black Sea fleet.

Sick men lie in beds and sit in wheelchairs in the Tuberculosis Ward of Denver General Hospital in Denver, ca. 1900-1910. Nurses and probably a doctor stand at the end of the long room. (Denver Public Library Special Collections)

‘The world’s sanitarium’: How Colorado’s history is tied to tuberculosis

By Corbett Stevenson

August 4, 2026 at 3:05 p.m.

Patients flocked to Colorado in the early 1900s to treat their tuberculosis.

Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrive at Hangar 25 on August 5, 2009 in Burbank, California after being released by North Korean authorities yesterday. Ling and Lee, of San Francisco based Current TV, were both arrested by North Korea in March for illegally entering the country on the Chinese border. Yesterday they were pardoned by President Kim Jong-Il after a meeting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Ling and Lee had been sentenced to 12 years in prison in June. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images for Shangri-La)

Today in History: August 4, Kim Jong Il pardons American journalists Laura Ling, Euna Lee

By Associated Press

August 4, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il pardoned American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee for...

FILE – In this Aug. 3, 1936, file photo, gold medalist Jessie Owens, second right, salutes during the playing of the national anthem during the medal ceremony of the 100-meter final in Berlin. silver medalist Tinus Osendarp, third from right, of, Holland, and bronze medalist Ralph Metcalf, right, listen, along with a matron who holds a Nazi salute. The 1936 Games in Berlin, awarded about two years before Adolf Hitler became dictator, went ahead under Nazism. American track great Jesse Owens went on to win four gold medals, but he was only supposed to compete in three events, the 100 meters, 200 meters and long jump. (AP Photo/File)

Today in History: August 3, Jesse Owens wins first gold medal at Berlin Olympics

By Associated Press

August 3, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at...

1873: ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok (James Butler Hickock, 1837 – 1876) frontiersman, marksman and law enforcement officer as he appeared when performing in New York in one of Bill Cody’s shows. Killed in a poker game, hence ‘Dead Man’s Hand’, a pair of eights and a pair of aces. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Today in History: August 2, ‘Wild Bill’ shot and killed during poker game

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August 2, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Frontiersman “Wild Bill” Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in...

This is how the area around the administration building tower at the Univ. of Texas looked to Charles Joseph Whitman as he peered through an opening in the wall around the walkway near the top of the tower in Austin, Texas on August 1, 1966. Several persons were shot to death on the ground. Whitman was identified by police as the killer of 14 persons during the spree. Rough spots on concrete made by police gunfire during the exchange of shots. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

Today in History: August 1, University of Texas at Austin tower sniper kills 14

By Associated Press

August 1, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, went on an armed rampage at the University of Texas in...

Visitors look at Roman-era skulls and their facial reconstructions in the Aquincum Museum’s exhibition titled “Once we were like you” which showcases characters and the fictional life stories of those who once lived in the bustling Roman settlement of Aquincum, in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

Face-to-face with ancient Rome: Exhibition in Hungary brings forgotten faces to life

By Associated Press

July 31, 2026 at 10:41 a.m.

DNA analysis reveals details like skin, hair and eye color.

Astronaut James Irwin beside the Rover parked near the lunar module, looking northeast, Mount Hadley in the background. (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 31, Apollo 15 astronauts use a lunar rover for the first time

By Associated Press

July 31, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Apollo 15 crew members David Scott and James Irwin became the first astronauts to use...

This photo provided by Bernardo Arriaza shows the Camarones coast on Nov. 2, 2018, in Northern Chile, where scientists found evidence of ancient smallpox infections. (Bernardo Arriaza via AP)

Ancient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the Americas

By Associated Press

July 30, 2026 at 2:47 p.m.

It spread to the Americas, where it killed millions and devastated Indigenous populations.

Streets are packed in heavy traffics following power outage and rains in the central part of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. India’s energy crisis spread over half the country Tuesday when both its eastern and northern electricity grids collapsed, leaving 600 million people without power in one of the world’s biggest-ever blackouts. Traffic lights went out across New Delhi. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Today in History: July 30, India plunged into world’s biggest blackout

By Associated Press

July 30, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Three electric grids in India collapsed in a cascade, cutting power to 620 million people...

FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows former Bolingbrook, Ill., police officer Drew Peterson. Peterson is set to appear in a southwestern Illinois courtroom Friday, July 29, 2016 for sentencing, after he was convicted in a May murder-for-hire trial. Jurors agreed that Peterson attempted to hire an inmate’s uncle to kill Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow. (Illinois Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Today in History: July 29, Drew Peterson gets 40 more years for murder-for-hire plot

By Associated Press

July 29, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.

Former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson was given an additional 40 years in prison...

FILE – In this July 28, 1984, file photo, some 1,200 helium balloons are released into the air from the field of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as part of the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Dave Tenenbaum, FIle)

Today in History: July 28, Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles

By Associated Press

July 28, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The Los Angeles Summer Olympics officially opened; 14 Eastern Bloc countries, led by the Soviet...

John and Reve Walsh of Hollywood, Fla., along with a photo of their son Adam, who was taken from a store in Hollywood several months ago, appear before a House Judiciary subcommittee on Missing Children on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 18, 1981. The boy’s severed head, the only part of his body discovered, was found in a canal near Vero Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

Today in History: July 27, horrific kidnapping, killing leads to ‘America’s Most Wanted’

By Associated Press

July 27, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Adam Walsh, 6, was abducted from a department store in Hollywood, Florida, and was later...

FILE – President Barack Obama, left, and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appear on stage together at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 27, 2016. Officially, neither party will have a nominee until a candidate wins the number of delegates needed at the convention to clinch the nomination. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Today in History: July 26, Hillary Clinton wins nomination for Democratic presidential candidate

By Associated Press

July 26, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political...

25th July 1978: The team who pioneered in-vitro fertilization, on the left Cambridge physiologist Dr Robert Edwards holding the world’s first test tube baby Louise Joy Brown and (on the right) gynaecologist Mr Patrick Steptoe (1913 – 1988). She was born by Caesarian section at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Today in History: July 25, first ‘test tube baby’ born in England

By Associated Press

July 25, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Louise Joy Brown, the first “test tube baby,” was born in Oldham, England; she’d been...

FILE – In this July 24, 2010 file picture an ambulance leaves a tunnel after a stampede at the techno-music festival “Loveparade 2010” in Duisburg, Germany. A German court has decided Tuesday April 5, 2016 that 10 people indicted over a deadly mass panic at the Love Parade techno music festival in 2010 will not stand trial. Twenty-one people died on July 24, 2010 in a crush in a packed tunnel that was the sole access point to the event in Duisburg, (AP Photo/Michael Sohn,file)

Today in History: July 24, stampede at Germany music festival kills 21

By Associated Press

July 24, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

A stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans left 21 people dead and...

FILE – USA’s Kerri Strug is carried by her coach, Bela Karolyi, as she waves to the crowd on her way to receiving her gold medal for the women’s team gymnastics competition, at the Centennial Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, July 23, 1996. Strug had two torn ligaments and a sprained ankle from the vault competition. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan, File)

Today in History: July 23, Kerri Strug, with torn ankle ligaments, secures Team USA gold medal

By Associated Press

July 23, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle to...

FILE – In this July 21, 1934 file photo, people pose in front of the Biograph Theater on N. Lincoln Avenue in Chicago as one woman displays the newspaper headline “Dillinger Slain.” Outlaw John Dillinger was shot and killed by federal agents outside the movie theater after watching the feature “Manhattan Melodrama.” The film “Public Enemies” being released July 1, 2009, stars Johnny Depp as Dillinger, who drove the same streets, burst out of the same buildings and emerged from the same theater and pretended to die in the same alley where the feds plugged Dillinger more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo, File)

Today in History: July 22, feds kill bank robber John Dillinger outside Chicago movie theater

By Associated Press

July 22, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater,...

Anthea Hartig, Director of the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian Institute, testifies during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency hearing about the Smithsonian, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Smithsonian history museum chief rejects White House criticism of its leaders as radical activists

By Associated Press

July 21, 2026 at 1:54 p.m.

She says the museum does not take sides in political debates.

** FILE ** This three picture combination shows: on the left, Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic in an April 1996 file photo during the Bosnian Serb assembly session in Pale, some 16 kilometers (10 miles) east of Sarajevo, the centre photo shows, Karadzic in an undated photo released by Belgrade’s “Healthy Life” magazine Tuesday July 22, 2008, made at an undisclosed location in Belgrade with glasses, long white hair and a beard and the photo on the right shows Karadzic appearing in the courtroom during his initial appearance at the U.N.’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday July 31, 2008 (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 21, Bosnian war crime fugitive arrested in Belgrade suburb

By Associated Press

July 21, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was...

Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, right, draws from a fish bowl the first number in the World War I draft July 20, 1917. Current Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson will draw from this goldfish bowl on Oct. 29, 1940, the first number in a nationwide lottery to determine the order of calling men for military training under selective service for the new World War. (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 20, World War I draft lottery begins

By Associated Press

July 20, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

America’s World War I draft lottery began as Secretary of War Newton Baker, wearing a...

A burnt area shows the contact point and crash path of United Airlines flight 232 after it exploded on impact during an attempted emergency landing at Sioux City Airport in Sioux City, Iowa on July 20, 1989. The old runways of the original airport, now used as taxiways, are seen criss-crossing the crash path. The pilot was attempting to land on one of the closed runways. (AP Photo/Jeff Bundy)

Today in History: July 19, plane crashes during emergency landing, kills 111

By Associated Press

July 19, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

111 people were killed when United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 that sustained a tail...

A steel-helmeted policeman wields his club on fleeing African American youths at West 125th Street during violence in New Yorks Harlem neighborhood, July 20, 1964. Demonstrators were protesting the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old African American, James Powell, by a white police officer. (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 18, Harlem riots after fatal police shooting of Black teen

By Associated Press

July 18, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Nearly a week of rioting erupted in New York’s Harlem neighborhood following the fatal police...

Undated picture of Tsar Nicholas II who was executed in Jekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks 17 July 1918. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Today in History: July 17, Russian Czar and his family executed

By Associated Press

July 17, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

WOODS HOLE, UNITED STATES: A Coast Guard ship carrying the bodies of John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren G. Bessette enter the waters of Woods Hole, MA, 21 July 1999 in front of a passenger ferry. The bodies were recovered from the crash site of the small plane flown by John F. Kennedy, Jr. which went missing late 16 July, 1999 off Martha’s Vineyard, MA. The recovered bodies were later being taken to the Barnstable County Medical Examiner office, MA, for autopsy. Accompanying the bodies were Sen. Edward Kennedy and his sons Edward Kennedy, Jr. and Patrick Kennedy. AFP PHOTO Matt CAMPBELL (Photo credit should read MATT CAMPBELL/AFP via Getty Images)

Today in History: July 16, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister die in plane crash

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July 16, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when their...

Visitors view the reinstalled educational panels about slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa)

Federal government replaces slavery exhibition at Washington’s home in Philadelphia

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July 16, 2026 at 9:04 a.m.

Critics warn the new panels whitewash the history of slavery.

FILE — In this July 20, 1976 file photo, officials remove a truck buried at a rock quarry in Livermore, Calif., in which 26 Chowchilla school children and their bus driver were held captive. Nearly 40 years later the final convicted kidnapper, Fredrick Woods, is awaiting a parole hearing Nov. 19, 2015. Woods accomplices, brothers James and Richard Schoenfeld have already been paroled.(AP Photo/file)

Today in History: July 15, school bus full of children kidnapped in rural California

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July 15, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were...

Bank robber or ‘sneak thief’ William James Burke (1858 – 1919), aka ‘Billy the Kid’ (although not the most famous bearer of that nickname), circa 1886. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Today in History: July 14, ‘Billy the Kid’ shot and killed

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July 14, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias “Billy the Kid,” was shot and killed by Sheriff...

** FILE ** Serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz is escorted into a Harris County Courtroom by Sheriff Department Lt. J. Holden for a hearing, July 14, 1999, in Houston. Since his arrest the man known as the “Railroad Killer” has given authorities crucial details that have helped close four murder cases in three states, including one in which another man had been charged. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, POOL)

Today in History: July 13, ‘Railroad Killer’ surrenders in Texas

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July 13, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Angel Maturino Resendiz, suspected of being the “Railroad Killer” responsible for the deaths at least...

The gravesite of Hannah Arnold, the mother of Benedict Arnold.

He was nation’s most famous traitor. Why the utter loathing lives on 250 years later.

By Helen I Bennett

July 12, 2026 at 10:01 a.m.

History professor Dr. Matt Warshauer said the "loathing" is not unexpected.

Torn down metal grating protecting stores, during a lull in the Newark riots in Newark, New Jersey, July 1967. Ocurring over four days, from 12th July to 17th July, the riots were sparked by the beating of a Black taxi driver (John William Smith) by two white Newark police officers (John DeSimone and Vito Pontrelli) on the evening of 12th July. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Today in History: July 12, riot erupts in New Jersey over police beating of Black taxi driver

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July 12, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Rioting erupted in Newark, New Jersey, over the police beating of a Black taxi driver;...

FILE- in this July 11, 2006 file photo, policemen investigate near a train coach destroyed by a bomb blast at Matunga railway station in Mumbai, India. An Indian court on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 sentenced five suspected Islamic militants to death and gave seven others life in prison for bombing attacks nine years ago on seven Mumbai commuter trains that killed 188 people and wounded more than 800. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

Today in History: July 11, train bombing in Mumbai kills more than 200

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July 11, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Eight bombs hit a commuter rail network during evening rush hour in Mumbai, India, killing...

This file picture shows the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior lying on its side in Auckland harbour on July 10, 1985 after being blown-up by French secret service agents during the night of July 09 as the ship lay docked in Auckland harbour in preparation for a protest expedition to the nuclear test site at French atoll Mururoa. Global environment group Greenpeace will on July 10 mark the keel-laying of the latest incarnation of its flagship the Rainbow Warrior at Poland’s Gdansk shipyard, it said today June 24, 2010. AFP PHOTO / NEW ZEALAND HERALD (FILES) (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)

Today in History: July 10, Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior blown up by French agents

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July 10, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

The Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by...

An inspection team picks through the rubble that once was Pan Am flight 759 at New Orleans International Airport, July 13, 1982. The wreckage was brought to the airport from the crash scene and will be trucked to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York for closer inspection. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

Today in History: July 9, Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Louisiana, killing 153

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July 9, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Pan Am Flight 759, a Boeing 727, crashed in Kenner, Louisiana, shortly after takeoff from...

FILE – In this July 8, 2000 file photo, U.S. tennis player Venus Williams laughs as she holds the Women’s Singles trophy on Centre Court at Wimbledon. (AP Photo/Adam Butler, file)

Today in History: July 8, Venus Williams wins her first Grand Slam title

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July 8, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport for her first Grand Slam title, becoming the first Black...

Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras perform as the Three Tenors, at their first concert in the Roman Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy, July 7, 1990, at the opening of the 1990 World Cup. (AP Photo/Bruno Mosconi)

Today in History: July 7, ‘Three Tenors’ perform before FIFA World Cup final

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July 7, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

The first “Three Tenors” concert took place as opera stars Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and...

FILE – In this July 25, 2016, file photo, a memorial including a photo of Philando Castile adorns the gate to the governor’s residence where protesters continue to demonstrate in St. Paul, Minn., against the July 6, 2016, shooting death of Castile by St. Anthony police Officer Jeronimo Yanez during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minn. Yanez is expected to enter his plea on manslaughter charges during a hearing Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Today in History: July 6, Philando Castile fatally shot during traffic stop

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July 6, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Philando Castile, a Black elementary school cafeteria worker, was fatally shot during a traffic stop...

FILE – This Feb. 9, 2011 file photo shows Spam on a shelf in a Bethel Park, Pa. Cans of Spam have become a common item that’s being stolen from Honolulu stores and then sold on the streets for quick cash, according to authorities. Honolulu police said they took a report of a man lifting a case of the canned meat from a store earlier in Oct. 2017. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Today in History: July 5, Hormel introduces the world to Spam

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July 5, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Hormel introduced a canned meat product called Spam; more than 9 billion cans have been...

This undated engraving shows the scene on July 4, 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pa. The document, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Philip Livingston and Roger Sherman, announces the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. The formal signing by 56 members of Congress began on Aug. 2. (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 4, Declaration of Independence adopted by Second Continental Congress

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July 4, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Andy Griffith gets a closer look at a bronze statue of Andy and Opie honoring The Andy Griffith television show Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2003, after the statue was unveiled during a ceremony in Raleigh, N.C. Griffith’s 40-year acting career has been largely defined by Sheriff Andy Tayor, a character he played in the show.(AP Photo/Bob Jordan)

Today in History: July 3, beloved TV sheriff Andy Griffith dies

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July 3, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Andy Griffith, who made homespun American Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in...

FILE – Portraits of a red-headed Thomas Jefferson, left, and John Dickinson, right, by by Charles Willson Peale are seen at the refurbished Second Bank of the United States in Philadelphia on Nov. 26, 2004. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)

The Declaration’s forgotten (non)signer: John Dickinson’s missing 1776 signature haunts his legacy

By Associated Press

July 2, 2026 at 1:05 p.m.

Dickinson was a key voice against British taxation and wrote “The Liberty Song.”

James Abram Garfield (1831 – 1881) 20th President of the United States being assassinated at Baltimore Station, Ohio. Following his support of civil service reform he was shot by Charles Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker. Original Publication: People Disc – HD0136 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Today in History: July 2, President Garfield shot by disappointed supporter

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July 2, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

President James A. Garfield was shot by office seeker Charles J. Guiteau (gee-TOH’) at the...

FILE – In this July 1, 1997, file photo, fireworks explode above performers at a show at Beijing’s Workers Stadium which marked the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty. Hong Kong, the former British colony, returns to Chinese rule under the principle of “one country, two systems.” (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara, File)

Today in History: July 1, British rule of Hong Kong ends

By Associated Press

July 1, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.

FILE – A statue of Thomas Jefferson, right, stands in New York’s City Hall Council Chamber, July 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

A Jefferson for every era, from Lincoln to Trump, and the contradictions that endure

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June 30, 2026 at 11:47 a.m.

Jefferson has been claimed by both sides of historical debates, from Civil War to civil...

Eugene V. Debs, member of the Socialist Party of the USA and presidential candidate, speaks to members of the worker’s union on Aug. 17, 1912, at an unknown location in the USA. (AP Photo) — Eugene V. Debs, Mitglied der Sozialistischen Partei der USA, haelt als Praesidentschaftskandidat vor der Arbeiter-Gewerkschaft eine Rede, aufgenommen am 17. August 1912. (AP Photo)

Today in History: June 30, criticism of US involvement in World War I leads to sedition charge

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June 30, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland, charged under the Sedition...

US Astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar (R) shakes hands with Russian Cosmonaut Gennady M. Strekalov (L) 29 June on board the Mir Space Station after the crew of the Shuttle Atlantis successfully docked with the Mir. Looking on are cosmonaut Nikolai M. Budarin (L back), Mir-19 flight engineer, and astronaut Robert L. Gibson (R back), STS-71 mission commander. AFP PHOTO (Photo by – / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Today in History: June 29, space shuttle Atlantis docks with Russian space station

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June 29, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docked with Russia’s Mir space station as they orbited the...

FILE – An exterior view of the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village section of New York, site of the 1969 riot that sparked the Gay Rights Movement. This photo was taken in May 1994. What became known as the gay liberation movement traces its roots to the 1969 police crackdown of patrons at the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New York City and three days of riots that followed. (AP Photo/Kevin Larkin, File)

Today in History: June 28, police raid at Stonewall Inn sparks gay rights movement

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June 28, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Riots broke out following a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ+ bar in...

Sir Thomas Bland, Deputy Chairman of Barclays Bank, unveils the first Barclaycash machine in the London borough of Enfield, UK, 27th June 1967. Behind him is Mr A. G. Norman, Chairman of De La Rue, and on the right is actor Reg Varney (1916 – 2008). (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Today in History: June 27, first ATM unveiled near London

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June 27, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Barclays Bank unveiled the first automated teller machine (ATM) in the town of Enfield, north...

UNDATED: This handout from Christie’s shows the cover of J K Rowling’s first novel Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone. Fine printed books and manuscripts, including a rare first edition of J K Rowling’s first novel Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, is estimated to auction off at12,000 pounds at Christie’s May 3, 2003 in London. Rowling’s latest addition to the series, Harry Potter & The Order of The Phoenix, is expected to be released in bookstores June 21. (Photo by Christie’s/Getty Images)

Today in History: June 26, first Harry Potter novel published

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June 27, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The first Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling, was...

Prime Minister-designate Kim Campbell waves to delegates after she won the party’s leadership convention in Ottawa, June 13, 1993. (AP Photo/Phill Snel)

Today in History: June 25, Canada swears in its first woman prime minister

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June 25, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada’s 19th prime minister, the first woman to hold...

LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 23: John Isner of USA reacts during his first round match against Nicolas Mahut of France on Day Three of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 23, 2010 in London, England. The match has become the longest in Grand Slam history. (Photo by Hamish Blair/Getty Images)

Today in History: June 24, American wins longest pro tennis match in history

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June 24, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

American John Isner won the longest professional tennis match in history, defeating Nicolas Mahut of...

Today in History: June 23, Thai soccer team gets trapped in flooded cave

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June 23, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

12 young soccer players and their coach became trapped in a flooded cave in northern...

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – JUNE 22: Argentina player Diego Maradona outjumps England goalkeeper Peter Shilton to score with his ‘Hand of God’ goal as England defenders Kenny Sansom (top) Gary Stevens (c) and Terry Fenwick look on during the 1986 FIFA World Cup Quarter Final at the Azteca Stadium on June 22, 1986 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Allsport/Getty Images)

Today in History: June 22, soccer great scores ‘Hand of God’ goal

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June 22, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona scored the infamous “Hand of God” goal in the quarterfinals...

The tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier on Second Ave. in Bethlehem, in 2016. (DOUGLAS KILPATRICK/SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL)

America 250: Soldiers’ names forgotten, but sacrifices remembered at Bethlehem Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

By Leif Greiss

June 21, 2026 at 10:40 a.m.

Four men are interred at the site, but more than 500 are buried on the...

SpaceShipOne pilot Michael W. Melvill celebrates atop the craft after landing following his trip to suborbital space at Mojave, Calif., airport Monday, June 21, 2004. SpaceShipOne is a privately developed rocket plane that became the world’s first commercial manned space vehicle and the first non-governmental flight to leave the Earth’s atmosphere. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Today in History: June 21, first privately funded space vehicle takes flight

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June 21, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The aircraft SpaceShipOne made the first privately funded human spaceflight.

The British retreat down Warren Street with Revolutionary soldiers in pursuit during a 2015 reenactment of the First Battle of Trenton. (Trentonian File Photo)

America 250: One hour in Trenton changed the course of the American Revolution

By L A Parker

June 20, 2026 at 10:40 a.m.

Only a few American soldiers were injured in the short fight that lasted slightly longer...

An African American is dragged from a street car near the downtown section of Detroit on June 21, 1943, and continued to battle in the streets. Military rule in the city was established in an effort to halt the fighting. (AP Photo)

Today in History: June 20, race-related rioting erupts in Detroit

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June 20, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit; federal troops were sent in by President Franklin D. Roosevelt...

Sam “Momo” Giancana, circa Feb. 22, 1963. (Handout photo) most likely from police department. -MM

Today in History: June 19, Chicago mob boss shot to death

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June 19, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Former Chicago organized crime boss Sam Giancana was shot to death in the basement of...

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte tries to lead the final assault by his Imperial Guard at the Battle of Waterloo during the Napoleonic War of the Seventh Coalition on 18th June 1815 at Waterloo, Belgium. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Today in History: June 18, Napoleon Bonaparte defeated in the Battle of Waterloo

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June 18, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated...

This 2006 image from Angela Lieverse shows the skull of a young girl who was buried with victims of the plague in Siberia. (Angela Lieverse via AP)

Ancient teeth from Siberia rewrite the plague’s timeline, dating back to over 5,500 years ago

By Associated Press

June 17, 2026 at 1:36 p.m.

Rare, modern-day plague persists and is treated with antibiotics.

Don’t Fire until you see the whites of their eyes, tradition says Israel Putnam told his men at stiffly fought Battle of Bunker Hill overlooking Boston shown in 1946 artwork, which colonists finally lost on June 17, 1775. (AP Photo)

Today in History: June 17, the British suffer heavy losses in the Battle of Bunker Hill

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June 17, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a costly victory for the British,...

FILE – In this Sunday, June 16, 2015, file photo, Donald Trump, accompanied by his wife Melania Trump, is applauded by his daughter Ivanka Trump, right as he’s introduced before his announcement that he will run for president in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. It was the escalator ride that would change history. Four years ago on Sunday, Donald Trump descended through the marble and brass atrium of Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president. It was the first step on a journey few believed would take him all the way to the White House. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Today in History: June 16, Donald Trump launches presidential campaign

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June 16, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Real estate mogul Donald Trump launched his successful campaign for the presidency of the United...

June 1904: The stricken steamship General Slocum, which caught fire during a pleasure cruise on New York City’s East River, resulting in the loss of over 1,100 lives. Original Publication: Illustrated London News – Fire On Pleasure Steamer Near New York – pub. 1904 (Photo by HultonArchive/Illustrated London News/Getty Images)

Today In History: June 15, over 1,000 killed in New York steamboat accident

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June 15, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

More than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat PS General Slocum in...

Aviation pioneers John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-land their Vickers Vimy aircraft in a bog near the wireless station at Clifden, Ireland, on June 15, 1919, after they complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight from St. Johns, Newfoundland, to the Irish coast. (AP Photo)

Today in History: June 14, aviators take first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

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June 14, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown embarked on the first non-stop flight across...

Medical personnel and visitors gather at the nose of a transport plane carrying Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student who was imprisoned in North Korea in March 2016, before he is transferred to an ambulance at Lunken regional airport, Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Cincinnati. Warmbier, serving a 15-year prison term for alleged anti-state acts, was released and medically evacuated from the reclusive country Tuesday and has been in a coma for months, his parents said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Today in History: June 13, American college student in a coma released by North Korea

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June 13, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American college student, was released by North Korea in a coma...

FILE – U.S. President Ronald Reagan acknowledges the crowd after his speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, where he said “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” June 12, 1987. U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1983 famously branded Russia an “evil empire.” Five years later, he recanted the description at a summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. (AP Photo/Ira Schwartz, File)

Today in History: June 12, Reagan urges Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall’

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June 12, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, exhorted Soviet...

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher waves to supporters from Conservative Party headquarters in London after claiming victory in Britain’s general election, June 12, 1987. Thatcher won a record third successive term in office when her party captured a majority of the seats in Parliament. Man at right is unidentified. (AP Photo/Gerald Penny)

Today in History: June 11, Margaret Thatcher wins third term as British prime minister

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June 11, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in over 160 years to win a...

Benito Mussolini, left, and Adolf Hitler move along in step, smilingly accepting the plaudits of Munich residents when they met to discuss armistice terms for beaten France on June 18, 1940. Joyous expressions on faces of women and girls at left as they raise their arms to Heil the axis leaders. (AP Photo)

Today in History: June 10, Benito Mussolini enters Italy into World War II

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June 10, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on France and Great Britain, formally entering Italy into...

FILE – President Dwight D. Eisenhower, getting in a final bit of relaxation on the eve of the visit by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, practices a few iron shots the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sept. 14, 1959. (AP Photo, File)

From tennis to T-ball, the White House’s South Lawn is no stranger to sports. But not like the UFC

By Associated Press

June 9, 2026 at 1:01 p.m.

Teddy Roosevelt introduced sports to the White House with a tennis court.

A banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, is displayed at Central, Hong Kong’s business district, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview, and called them transparent – even though they are authorized in secret. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Today in History: June 9, Edward Snowden reveals he was the source of classified intelligence

By Associated Press

June 9, 2026 at 4:01 a.m.

Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor, revealed in a video...