On the evening of June 1, 1863, three Union gunboats slipped quietly out of Beaufort Harbor in South Carolina and steamed northward through the dark waters toward the Combahee Rive
On February 2, 1990, South African State President Frederik Willem de Klerk stood before a packed parliament in Cape Town and delivered one of the most unexpected speeches in the h
In early 1488, a Portuguese navigator named Bartolomeu Dias became the first European mariner ever to round the southern tip of Africa. He did it without even knowing it had happen
On February 2, 1943, the last German troops inside the ruined city of Stalingrad laid down their weapons and surrendered to the Soviet Red Army. The Battle of Stalingrad was over a
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
