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    • Today in History: MARCH 1, Watergate figures indicted

      Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year ago

      Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 1, the 60th day of 2023. There are 305 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 1, 1974, seven people, including former Nixon ...

    • Today in History: May 12, Soviets lift Berlin Blockade

      Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year ago

      On May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift. In 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the ...

    • Today in History: August 9, atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

      Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years ago

      On Aug. 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald R. Ford became the nation’s 38th chief executive as President Richard Nixon’s resignation took effect. In 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” which described ...

    • Today in History: April 16, MLK writes from Birmingham jail

      Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year ago

      Today’s Highlight in History: On April 16, 1945, a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the MV Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers ...

    • Today in History: March 13, Pope Francis is elected

      Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year ago

      In 1925, the Tennessee General Assembly approved a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William ...