Every day has a story of its own… a slice of time when something changed the world. What stories lie behind August 31? On August 31, we celebrated independence as Trinidad and Tobago gained its ...

The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on September 22nd, 1862, but it didn't go into full effect until January 1, 1863. That historic proclamation didn't immediately ...

It was August 6, 1945 when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The airplane carrying that bomb - built in Omaha, Nebraska. It was called the Enola Gay. It was hand picked ...

August 19, 1886 - Above tariffs and railroads, was the issue of prohibition for Nebraska voters in the election of 1886. A historian detailed two political parties that wanted absolute prohibition in ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1908, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Tonight is the night for the stars to fall. According to astronomical schedule they should come tumbling out of the sky at a tremendous rate, ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1926, Brooklyn Daily Eagle columnist Frederick Boyd Stevenson said, “Col. Robert Starr Allyn and other members of the Army Reserve Corps residing in New York City are very sincere in ...