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Good News in History, October 20
51 years ago, the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by then-monarch Elizabeth II. Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, it is widely regarded...
Good News in History, September 18
73 years ago today, A Streetcar Named Desire, the film based on the play by Tennessee Williams, premiered in New York City. Starring Vivien Leigh,...
Good News in History, August 25
21 years ago, NASA successfully launched the Spitzer Space Telescope. Spitzer was the third infrared space telescope, but the first to use an Earth-trailing...
Good News in History, August 4
And, 40 years ago today, Prince began a 24-week run at the top of the US album charts with Purple Rain. His sixth studio...
Good News in History, August 2
5 years ago today, the women of Saudi Arabia were given the right to travel abroad without a male guardian, a major advance in...
Good News in History, July 1
18 years ago today, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway line was opened, connecting the northwestern Chinese city of Xining in Qianghai Province with the capital of...
Good News in History, June 7
Happy 50th Birthday to Edward "Bear" Grylls OBE. The British adventurer and television presenter became wildly popular across the United States from his program...
Good News in History, May 10
200 years ago today, the National Gallery opened its doors to the public in Trafalgar Square, Westminster. It houses a collection of over 2,300...
Good News in History, May 7
18 years ago today, at the final match of Arsenal's home stadium of Highbury, their star forward Thierry Henry scored a hattrick against Wigan...
Good News in History, April 29
125 years ago today, the musician and composer Duke Ellington, one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time, was born in Washington,...
Good News in History, April 18
80 years ago today, the inaugural hearing of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) also called the World Court, was held at the Peace...
Good News in History, March 27
76 years ago today, a mere 11 days after being released from prison, jazz singer Billie Holiday played in front of a sold-out crowd...
Good News in History, February 27
5 years ago today, the smallest baby boy ever born that would survive to leave the hospital went home in Tokyo with his mom,...
Good News in History, February 24
188 years ago today, one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America, Winslow Homer, was born. Born in Boston to a father always seeking...
Good News in History, February 13
This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—February 13.
Good News in History, December 29
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)
Good News in History, December 14
On this day 85 years ago, the commission for Major League Baseball met to establish some rules and agreed on the weight and dimensions...
Good News in History, November 25
43 years ago today, "Sugar" Ray Leonard reclaimed his WBC Welterweight world championship in New Orleans after a masterful display that famously, infamously, left...
NFL Running Back Makes 218 Single Parents New Homeowners With Collaborative Charity
A former NFL great recently surprised a single mother and her daughter with a brand new home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but it was...
Teens Say They Have New Proof for 2,000-Year-Old Mathematical Theorem, a Method Scholars Thought Impossible
Two New Orleans high school students claim to have solved a 2,000-year-old puzzle in mathematics, which scientists are saying should be submitted to peer...