On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal,&n
February 17, 1972. The 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle comes off the assembly line, making it the wor
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we uncover the origins of words associated with Valentine's Day. Why is
February 14, 1929. Several members of Chicago’s North Side Gang are murdered in what will come to be
February 13, 1935. German immigrant Bruno Hauptmann is convicted for the murder of the 20-month-old
February 11, 1858. A young peasant girl in France claims to have had visions of a divine woman in a
February 10, 1972. When his music career begins to stagnate, David Bowie reinvents himself with an a
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we explore the island of Redonda through an interview with Michael Hing
February 7, 1900. The bubonic plague comes to America, but the man charged with defeating the diseas
February 4, 1974. Patty Hearst is kidnapped by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. This episo
February 3, 1959. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and “The Big Bopper” die in a plane crash on their wa
January 31, 1874. Jesse James and the James-Younger gang commit one of the most infamous crimes in t
January 30, 1661. On the 12th anniversary of the beheading of King Charles I, the controversial poli
January 28, 1069. The killing of the Earl of Northumbria leads William the Conqueror to unleash a te
January 27, 1944. Soviet forces defeat the German army outside Leningrad, ending an 872-day siege.Su
January 24, 1908. The Boy Scout movement begins with the publication of the first installment of Sco
January 23, 1977. Television drama Roots focuses attention on America’s history of slavery when it d
January 21, 1793. The King of France, Louis XVI, is executed on the guillotine during the French Rev
January 20, 1945. Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for an unprecedented and never to be repeated fo
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we find out how Group Captain A.G. ‘Sailor' Malan went from a farm boy
January 16, 27 BCE. Octavian is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginnin
