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 ...

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

On this day in Boston Celtics history, small forward and current Indiana Pacers head coach Richard "Rick" Preston Carlisle was born in Ogdensburg, New York in 1959. Carlisle played his college ball ...

With over 5,000 players in NBA history, at least one player was born on every day of the calendar year – including three leap ...

On this day in Boston Celtics history, forward Jaylen Brown was born in Marietta, Georgia in 1996. Brown would play collegiately at the University of California-Berkeley for the Golden Bears, where he ...

Lewis’s cause of death is disputed to this day. He may have died by suicide, or he may have been shot and killed by robbers along the treacherous Natchez Trace trail. Eleanor Roosevelt is born in New ...

On this day in Boston Celtics history, former Boston big man Shelden Williams was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983. An alum of the Duke Blue Devils where he ...

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 ...

Virgil is born in present-day Italy. One of ancient Rome’s greatest poets, Virgil composed the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid, which tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero who ...