On This Day February 7
On this day in 1812, the Mississippi River flowed backwards. This bizarre occurrence was due [...]
On This Day January 24
On this day in 1972, Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi of the Japanese Imperial Army was discovered [...]
On This Day January 17
On this day in 1977, convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was executed. Gilmore, famously demanding to [...]
On This Day October 25
On this day in 1984, Günther Stoll—a man plagued by paranoid fears—abruptly wrote the cryptic [...]
On This Day October 18
On this day in 1970, a Robert Bennett and his fiancé were talking quietly in [...]
On This Day October 11
On this day in 1809, Merriweather Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame, died at Grinders [...]
On This Day October 4
On this day in 1967, several witnesses, including local residents, fishermen, and pilots, reported seeing [...]
On This Day September 27
On this day in 1989, a group of Russian children in Voronezh witnessed a deep [...]
On This Day September 20
On this day in 1977, an anomalous atmospheric event known as the Petrozavodsk Event, was [...]
On this day September 13
On this day in 1916, Murderous Mary, a five-ton Asian elephant, was executed by hanging [...]