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239 years ago today, The Times of London published its first ever broadsheet. Originally founded as The Daily Universal Register, The Times used contributions from...

119 years ago today, the National Association of Audubon Society, the nonprofit dedicated to wildlife conservation, was incorporated—and not a minute too soon. Americans...

On this day 375 years ago, perhaps the greatest physicist the world has known, Isaac Newton, was born. Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, he invented his own calculus when he was 26 years old. An English mathematician, astronomer, and theologian, his book Principia, “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, formulated our understanding of the mechanics of motion and gravity, which dominated scientists’ view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. This farmer’s son also built the first practical reflecting telescope, and made pathbreaking observations in optics, figuring out that white light is really made of multiple colors. WATCH a cool video... (1543)

156 years ago today, Emperor Mutsuhito announced the formal conclusion to the Tokugawa Shogunate, and thus launched the Meiji Restoration, one of the great...

50 years ago today, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published The Gulag Archipelago, a literary investigation of the prison-labor camp system in the Soviet Union between 1918...

162 years ago today, Italo Svevo, a pioneer of Italian literature, was born in Trieste. Considered alongside James Joyce as a father of the...

425 years ago today, Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born. This Italian master sculptor and architect created the Baroque style, one of the four great...

Happy 70th birthday to Baaba Maal, the Senegalese singer and guitarist, who is one of the most important musical exports from the country. Pop...

202 years ago today, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow. Numerous literary critics consider him the greatest novelist in all world history. Most...

67 years ago today, the Indian government passed the States Reorganization Act, something the British really should have done themselves, which redivided large swaths...

On this day, 73 years ago, the British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid was born. Described as the "Queen of Curves," who "liberated architectural geometry, giving...

120 years ago today, the first modern World Series was played between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston 'Americans'. In a best-of-nine series, Boston...

On this day, in Game 2 of the 1909 World Series, Ty Cobb stole home base. The details around this famous of all capers...

108 years ago today, Dinosaur National Monument was established in Colorado and Utah. Dictated into existence by the executive power of the Antiquities Act,...

66 years ago today, a new island, or Ilha Novo, appeared on the edge of the westernmost island (Faial) in the Azores chain after...

160 years ago, George Bizet's famous opera Les Pêcheurs de Perles, The Pearl Fishermen, debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris. Set in ancient...

142 years ago today, Ludwig von Mises, the most influential economist of the 20th century was born in Lemberg. Today, Mises is remembered not...

On this day, 133 years ago, Congress established Sequoia National Park in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. Since that day, the protected area in which...

19 years ago today, J.J. Abrams's brilliant science-fiction drama Lost debuted on ABC. Running from 2004 to 2010, the show charted a course over six...

480 years ago today, the first book in the Finnish language was published. Called The Abckiria, or the "ABC Book" it taught Finnish peasants...