At exactly 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, February 2, 1913, the doors of Grand Central Terminal swung open in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. More than 150,000 people poured through those d
On the afternoon of February 2, 1876, a group of baseball club owners gathered in a private room at the Grand Central Hotel in New York City. They had been invited under the
On the morning of February 2, 1848, in the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo — a sanctuary town north of Mexico City to which the Mexican government had fled as American troops occupied
On February 2, 1536, a Spanish conquistador named Pedro de Mendoza stood on the western bank of a vast, tawny estuary at the southern edge of South America and decreed the founding
On February 2, 962, inside the solemn grandeur of Old St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, a ceremony took place that would define European civilization for nearly nine centu
On the morning of February 1, 2003, hundreds of people had gathered at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in quiet anticipation of what everyone expected to be a routine landing. The
On the foggy morning of February 1, 1979, a chartered Air France Boeing 747 descended through the clouds over Tehran and touched down at Mehrabad International Airport. Aboard that
On February 24, 1942, a radio signal traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and into the homes of people living under Nazi occupation. The message was brief, direct, and unlike
On the morning of January 2, 1942, columns of Japanese soldiers marched through the wide, eerily quiet streets of Manila. The city that had long been called the Pearl of the Orient
On January 2, 1905, in the frozen hills above the harbor of Port Arthur — a deep-water naval base at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in southern Manchuria — a white flag was
