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- 2012Facebook raises $16 billion in largest tech IPO in U.S. historyFacebook, the world’s largest social network, holds its initial public offering (IPO) and raises $16 billion.View More →
- 1974India joins the nuclear clubIn the Rajasthan Desert in the municipality of Pokhran, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, a fission bomb similar in explosive power to the U.View More →
- 1973In 1973, Harvard law professor Archibald Cox was appointed Watergate special prosecutor by U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson.In 1973, the political landscape of the United States was irrevocably altered with the appointment of Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox as the Watergate special prosecutor by U.View More →
- 1933In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.In a landmark decision that would reshape the landscape of the American South, President Franklin D.View More →
- 1926Popular evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappearsAimee Semple McPherson, a nationally known evangelist, disappears from Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California.View More →
- 1917U.S. Congress passes Selective Service Act
Some six weeks after the United States formally entered the First World War, the U.View More → - 1910The Quiet Passing of Halley’s Comet
Halley’s Comet has been skirting Earth over and over again for centuries and did so again on this day. Happily, the disasters predicted by some failed to happenView More → - 1910In 1910, Halley’s Comet passed by earth, brushing it with its tail.In May 1910, the world found itself captivated by the anticipated return of Halley’s Comet, a celestial phenomenon that graced the Earth approximately every 76 years.View More →
- 1896Supreme Court rules “separate but equal” constitutional in Plessy v. FergusonIn a major victory for supporters of racial segregation, the U.View More →
- 1896In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, endorsed “separate but equal” racial segregation, a concept renounced 58 years later by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.On May 18, 1896, the U.View More →
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