On This Day

Da Vinci notebook sells for over $5M

12 December 1980

First Nobel Prizes awarded

10 December 1901

U.S. Marines storm Mogadishu, Somalia

9 December 1992

East Timor still searches for justice, 50 years after I...

East Timor’s declaration of independence from Portugal in November 1975 was swif...

Irish Free State declared

6 December 1921

The MRI Scanner

4 December 1980

Eureka Stockade

3 December 1854

St. Andrew's Day

30 November 1320

U.N. votes for partition of Palestine

29 November 1947

Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific

28 November 1520