President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first “fireside chat” on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. This was the first in a series of broadcasts in which
March is here, which means just one thing for college basketball lovers: March Madness. The annual NCAA college basketball tournament begins on March 19, 2024, when 64 collegiate teams will take their turns playing for the championship title. This year, games will
Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his family left the Philippine island of Corregidor on this day in history, March 11, 1942. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the island after it became clear it was no longer safe for MacArthur to
A brave counter-protester who held up a ‘Hamas are terrorists’ sign in the middle of a huge pro-Palestine rally in London was dragged to the ground and arrested by mulitple police officers. Footage of the incident showed campaigner Niyak Ghorbani, 37, unfurling
Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. “Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you,” Bell wrote in his own account of the first words transmitted
Enjoying a unique distinction as both a hugely successful child’s toy and a global style icon, Barbie debuted on the world stage on this day in history, March 9, 1959. Lithe, buxom and 11½ inches tall, Barbie wore a zebra-striped black-and-white swimsuit
Baseball star Joe DiMaggio, a towering figure of American popular culture both on and off the field, died in Hollywood, Florida, after a battle with lung cancer on this day in history, March 8, 1999. The New York Yankees legend was 84
The national pastime took the familiar format that baseball fans know today, with nine players per team and nine innings per game, on this day in history, March 7, 1857. The adoption of uniform rules marked the culmination of a national convention
The Senegalese government has set March 24 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election, according to an official statement issued Wednesday after a meeting of the Council of Ministers. SENEGALESE LEADERS PROPOSE JUNE ELECTIONS AFTER COURT REJECTS PRESIDENT’S DELAY
Longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek revealed in a YouTube video on this day in history, Wednesday, March 6, 2019, that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Trebek, age 78 at the time, said he learned of the condition that