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It's not referring to a tropical disease to say that someone has an EGOT. It means they've got a mantlepiece at home where stand...

80 years ago today, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosted its first-ever jazz concert. A star-studded lineup of performers was acquired...

63 years ago today, President Eisenhower went on television to deliver his farewell address after two full terms as president. He prepared it along...

45 years ago today, Life on Earth debuted on BBC 2. Its gravitas at the time for British television has a parallel in our time to...

50 years ago today, the TV sitcom Happy Days premiered on ABC, starring Ron Howard—as a clean-cut teenager in the late 50s who frequents...

239 years ago today, The Times of London published its first ever broadsheet. Originally founded as The Daily Universal Register, The Times used contributions from...

65 years ago today, Berry Gordy founded what would become Motown Records, a Black-owned label that achieved crossover success and played an important role...

25 years ago today, comedian Jon Stewart took charge as the host of the satirical late-night talk show The Daily Show, on Comedy Central....

25 years ago today, The Sopranos debuted on HBO. Running for 6 seasons totaling 86 episodes, it is widely regarded as one of the greatest and...

Happy 80th Birthday to Jimmy Page, the brilliant guitarist, songwriter, and producer whose groundbreaking band Led Zeppelin released its first album 51 years ago...

49 years ago today, Ella Grasso became the first woman to be elected to serve as a state governor in the US. A member...

127 years ago today, the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil, held its first performance during the heyday of the city's rubber boom. It was...

61 years ago today, Mutual of Omaha's 'Wild Kingdom' was first broadcast on NBC. Hosted by American zoologist Marlin Perkins and filmed by Jim...

119 years ago today, the National Association of Audubon Society, the nonprofit dedicated to wildlife conservation, was incorporated—and not a minute too soon. Americans...

On this day 375 years ago, perhaps the greatest physicist the world has known, Isaac Newton, was born. Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, he invented his own calculus when he was 26 years old. An English mathematician, astronomer, and theologian, his book Principia, “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, formulated our understanding of the mechanics of motion and gravity, which dominated scientists’ view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. This farmer’s son also built the first practical reflecting telescope, and made pathbreaking observations in optics, figuring out that white light is really made of multiple colors. WATCH a cool video... (1543)

156 years ago today, Emperor Mutsuhito announced the formal conclusion to the Tokugawa Shogunate, and thus launched the Meiji Restoration, one of the great...

174 years ago today, the world's first "Mercy" Hospital was founded in Pittsburgh, United States, by a group of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland....

Happy 80th Birthday to Sir Ben Kingsley, the English actor who has won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors...

133 years ago today, the American author, recordist, and expatriate Paul Bowles, was born. Living in Tangier, Morocco for 47 years, Bowles would publish...

On this day 80 years ago, a decade and a half after the Irish War of Independence and its treaty-induced interim government, Ireland was born when it adopted its own Constitution. A document committed to democratic ideals that enshrined the people as masters, it also provided the right to every child for a free primary education provided by the State. (1937)