On This Day July 7
On this day in 1947, Major Jesse Marcel and Captain Sheridan Cavitt visited the isolated [...]
On This Day June 30
On this day in 1999, the body of 41-year-old Ricky McCormick was discovered in a [...]
On This Day June 16
On this day in 1882, hailstones in excess of 17 inches in diameter and weighing [...]
On This Day June 9
On this day in 1912, in Villisca, Iowa the infamous Villisca Axe Murders occurred. Sometime [...]
On This Day June 2
On this day in 1835, showman P.T. Barnum began his first US tour. His dubious [...]
On This Day May 26
On this day in 1828 a mysterious boy named Kaspar Hauser appeared in Nuremberg. He [...]
On This Day May 12
On this day in 1846, the ill-fated Donner Party departed Independence, Missouri for the Oregon [...]
On This Day May 5
On this day in 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St [...]
On This Day April 21
On this day in 1977, 17-year-old Bill Bartlett claimed that he saw a creature with [...]
On This Day April 14
On this day in 1561, one of history's most bizarre unexplained aerial phenomena occurred in [...]