On June 30, 1985, the 17-day hijacking ordeal of Trans World Airlines Flight 847 finally came to an end when the last 39 American hostages were released in Damascus, Syria, marking
In February 1893, Thomas Alva Edison forever changed the course of entertainment history when he completed construction of the world’s first dedicated motion picture studio,
On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln made history by signing the joint resolution of Congress that would forever change the fabric of American society when he appr
On February 1, 1861, Texas became the seventh state to formally secede from the United States when delegates at a specially convened secession convention in Austin voted 166 to 8 t
On February 2, 1790, a momentous event in American constitutional history took place when the United States Supreme Court convened for its inaugural session in the Royal Exchange B
On January 1, 1959, the Cuban Revolution reached its climactic victory when Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba in the early morning hours, abandoning his dictatorship and paving the way f
On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island officially opened its doors as the United States’ premier federal immigration station in New York Harbor, fundamentally transforming how Amer
