Thursday, August 6th, 2026
American bomber drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
| Special InterestSunday, August 9th, 2026
Gerald Ford becomes president after Richard Nixon resigns
| Special InterestThe Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
| Special InterestMonday, August 10th, 2026
Son of Sam serial killer is arrested
| Special InterestTuesday, August 11th, 2026
Federal prisoners land on Alcatraz
| Special InterestWednesday, August 12th, 2026
Skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex discovered
| Special InterestThursday, August 13th, 2026
Berlin is divided
| Special InterestFriday, August 14th, 2026
Japan’s surrender made public
| Special InterestSaturday, August 15th, 2026
Woodstock festival opens in Bethel, New York
| Special InterestSunday, August 16th, 2026
Death of Elvis
| Special InterestGold discovered in the Yukon
| Special InterestMonday, August 17th, 2026
Woodstock Music Festival concludes
| Special InterestTuesday, August 18th, 2026
Soviet hard-liners launch coup against Gorbachev
| Special InterestWednesday, August 19th, 2026
First race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
| Special InterestThursday, August 20th, 2026
Saturday, August 22nd, 2026
Althea Gibson becomes first African American on U.S. tennis tour
| Special InterestSunday, August 23rd, 2026
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
| Special InterestMonday, August 24th, 2026
Mount Vesuvius erupts
| Special InterestTuesday, August 25th, 2026
The Great Moon Hoax" is published in the "New York Sun"
| Special InterestWednesday, August 26th, 2026
First televised Major League baseball game
| Special Interest19th Amendment - Women Rights to Vote
| Special InterestThursday, August 27th, 2026
Krakatoa explodes
| Special InterestFriday, August 28th, 2026
The March on Washington D.C. for Jobs and Freedom
| Special InterestEmmett Till is murdered
| Special InterestSaturday, August 29th, 2026
Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast
| Special InterestSunday, August 30th, 2026
Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice
| Special InterestMonday, August 31st, 2026
Princess Diana dies in a car crash
| Special InterestTuesday, September 1st, 2026
Bobby Fischer becomes the first American to win the World Chess Championship
| Special InterestWednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Japan surrenders, bringing an end to WWII
| Special InterestThursday, September 3rd, 2026
Treaty of Paris signed
| Special InterestFriday, September 4th, 2026
Geronimo surrenders
| Special InterestSaturday, September 5th, 2026
Sam Houston elected as president of Texas
| Special InterestSunday, September 6th, 2026
First tank produced
| Special InterestMonday, September 7th, 2026
United States nicknamed Uncle Sam
| Special InterestTuesday, September 8th, 2026
Ford Pardons Nixon
| Special InterestWednesday, September 9th, 2026
Elvis Presley makes first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
| Special InterestThursday, September 10th, 2026
First Drunk Driving Arrest
| Special InterestFriday, September 11th, 2026
Attack on the United States
| Special InterestSaturday, September 12th, 2026
Lascaux cave paintings discovered
| Special InterestSunday, September 13th, 2026
Israel-Palestine peace accord signed
| Special InterestMonday, September 14th, 2026
Francis Scott Key pens “The Star-Spangled Banner”
| Special InterestTuesday, September 15th, 2026
Muhammad Ali wins world heavyweight championship
| Special InterestWednesday, September 16th, 2026
Gandhi begins fast in protest of caste separation
| Special InterestThursday, September 17th, 2026
Battle of Antietam breaks out
| Special InterestThe U.S. Military's First Successful Suborbital Space
| Special InterestThe Signing of the U.S. Constitution
| Special InterestFriday, September 18th, 2026
George Washington lays the Capitol cornerstone
| Special InterestSaturday, September 19th, 2026
Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion
| Special InterestSunday, September 20th, 2026
Billie Jean King triumphs in “Battle of the Sexes"
| Special InterestMonday, September 21st, 2026
Benedict Arnold commits treason
| Special InterestTuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
| Special InterestWednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Billy the Kid arrested for first time
| Special InterestThursday, September 24th, 2026
The first Supreme Court is established
| Special InterestFriday, September 25th, 2026
Little Rock Nine begin first full day of classes
| Special InterestSaturday, September 26th, 2026
Kennedy and Nixon square off in first televised presidential debate
| Special InterestSunday, September 27th, 2026
John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British
| Special InterestMonday, September 28th, 2026
Ted Williams becomes last MLB player to hit .400
| Special InterestTuesday, September 29th, 2026
Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills seven
| Special InterestWednesday, September 30th, 2026
USS Nautilus—world’s first nuclear submarine—is commissioned
| Special InterestFriday, October 2nd, 2026
Hollywood icon Rock Hudson dies of AIDS
| Special InterestSaturday, October 3rd, 2026
O.J. Simpson aquitted
| Special InterestSunday, October 4th, 2026
Sputnik launched
| Special InterestMonday, October 5th, 2026
Apple co-founder founder Steve Jobs dies
| Special InterestTuesday, October 6th, 2026
The Reno brothers carry out the first train robbery in U.S. history
| Special InterestWednesday, October 7th, 2026
U.S. led attack on Afghanistan begins
| Special InterestThursday, October 8th, 2026
Great Chicago Fire begins
| Special InterestSaturday, October 10th, 2026
US Navy fighter jets intercept Italian cruise ship hijackers
| Special InterestSunday, October 11th, 2026
Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize
| Special InterestMonday, October 12th, 2026
Columbus reaches the "New World"
| Special InterestTuesday, October 13th, 2026
White House cornerstone laid
| Special InterestWednesday, October 14th, 2026
Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
| Special InterestOctober 14, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis
| NATL - HistoricalThe Cuban Missile Crisis
| Special InterestThursday, October 15th, 2026
Dancer and spy Mata Hari is executed
| Special InterestFriday, October 16th, 2026
The Long March
| Special InterestSaturday, October 17th, 2026
Al Capone goes to prison
| Special InterestSunday, October 18th, 2026
U.S. Takes Possession of Alaska
| Special InterestMonday, October 19th, 2026
Americans defeat the British at Yorktown
| Special InterestTuesday, October 20th, 2026
Congress investigates Communists in Hollywood
| Special InterestThursday, October 22nd, 2026
JFK’s address on Cuban Missile Crisis shocks the nation
| Special InterestFriday, October 23rd, 2026
Hostage crisis in Moscow theater
| Special InterestSaturday, October 24th, 2026
First barrel ride down Niagara Falls
| Special InterestSunday, October 25th, 2026
Cabinet member found guilty in Teapot Dome scandal
| Special InterestMonday, October 26th, 2026
Shootout at the O.K. Corral
| Special InterestTuesday, October 27th, 2026
New York City subway opens
| Special InterestWednesday, October 28th, 2026
St. Louis’s Gateway Arch is completed
| Special InterestThursday, October 29th, 2026
John Glenn returns to space
| Special InterestThe Stock Market Crash
| Special InterestFriday, October 30th, 2026
Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” radio play is broadcast
| Special InterestSaturday, October 31st, 2026
Martin Luther posts 95 theses
| Special InterestSunday, November 1st, 2026
Sistine Chapel ceiling opens to public
| Special InterestMonday, November 2nd, 2026
Howard Hughes’s “Spruce Goose” flies
| Special InterestThe Controversial 2000 Presidential Election
| Special InterestTuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Entrance to King Tut’s tomb discovered
| Special InterestThursday, November 5th, 2026
The order is given Bomb Pearl Harbor
| Special InterestFriday, November 6th, 2026
UN condemns apartheid in South Africa
| Special InterestSaturday, November 7th, 2026
FDR wins unprecedented fourth term
| Special InterestSunday, November 8th, 2026
German scientist discovers X-rays
| Special InterestMonday, November 9th, 2026