4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (291+ words) Today is Wednesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2026. There are 113 days left in the year. On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, taking 42 staff members hostage and demanding improvements to inmate treatment and…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (325+ words) Today is Monday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2026. There are 115 days left in the year. On Sept. 7, 1940, Nazi Germany began an intense bombing campaign of Britain during World War II with an air attack on London; known as The Blitz, the…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (384+ words) Today is Sunday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2026. There are 116 days left in the year. On Sept. 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL’-gawsh) at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (342+ words) Today is Saturday, Sept. 5, the 248th day of 2026. There are 117 days left in the year. On Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian militants attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games, killing two and taking nine others hostage; five of the militants, all nine…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (356+ words) Today is Wednesday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2026. There are 120 days left in the year. On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II. In 1666, the Great Fire of London began, which would…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (484+ words) Today is Tuesday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2026. There are 121 days left in the year. On Sept. 1, 1985, a U.S.-French expedition located the wreckage of the Titanic on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean roughly 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. In…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (354+ words) Today is Saturday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2026. There are 124 days left in the year. On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in southeast Louisiana, breaching levees and spurring floods that devastated New Orleans. Katrina caused nearly 1,400 deaths and an…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (367+ words) Today is Sunday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2026. There are 130 days left in the year. On Aug. 23, 1970, the Salad Bowl strike began, organized by farm labor leader Cesar Chavez; between 5,000 to 10,000 laborers walked off the job, leading to the largest farmworker…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (317+ words) Today is Thursday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2026. There are 133 days left in the year. On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” liberalization movement. In 1858, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was…...