Johnny Carson, born in Iowa on this day in history, Oct. 23, 1925, went on to become the iconic and Emmy Award-winning host ...

President Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City on Oct. 27, 1858, and went on to live a giant life as war hero and ...

Will we come to see the 2000 US presidential election as an opportunity lost when it came to preventing global heating? That’s the idea explored here by Roger Harrabin as he looks back at the contest ...

The USS Constitution was launched on Oct. 21, 1797, in Boston on this day in history. She went on to a legendary career in naval warfare, earning the famous moniker Old Ironsides.

General William Henry Harrison led a stunning victory over British forces and their Native allies in the Battle of the Thames on this day in history, Oct. 5, 1813. The swift American victory in ...

The United States formally secured the acquisition of the vast Alaska territory from Russia on Oct. 18, 1867. The data is ...

One of the driest months in United States history is coming to a close and the consequences are coming into focus.

The Kissers, Madison’s venerable Celtic rock band, started one night in the late 1990s when two good friends, Ken Fitzsimmons ...

The mighty USS Constitution, arguably the most famous warship in American history — a testament to dauntless courage at sea in the nation's infancy — was launched in Boston on this day in ...

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ON THIS DAY IN 1884, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reporte­d, “Young Mr. [Theodore] Roosevelt, who recently quitted his cattle ranch in Dakota, alighted last Saturday night in the Brooklyn Rink ...