This Day in History

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, April 29. In 1945, approximately 32,000 prisoners are freed from the Dachau concentration camp, which is located near Munich, Germany. The 42nd and 45th Infantry Divisions and the 20th Armored Division of the US Army liberated the camp as the

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, April 28. In 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, are both shot to death as they attempt an escape to neighboring Switzerland. Mussolini had quickly turned Italy into a regime that rejected democracy and favored a

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, April 27. In 1865, the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history occurs in the Mississippi River with the explosion of the Sultana. This happened just after the American Civil War ends and the assassination of 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln,

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, April 26. In 1986, the Chornobyl (or Chernobyl as derived in Russian) nuclear disaster occurs, spreading a trace amount of nuclear toxins across parts of Western Europe and rendering the city of Pripyat and the surrounding areas uninhabitable. The accident

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, April 25. In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is deployed in Earth’s low-orbit. Named after famed astronomer Edwin Hubble, the telescope was concepted decades prior in the 1940s as a device that can see distant galaxies without Earth’s atmosphere interfering.

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, April 24. In 1800, the Library of Congress is established. 2nd U.S. President John Adams sought to build a collection of books to use as a reference for Congress. The original collection of around 740 were shipped from London. Most

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, April 23. In 1972, Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death. The former U.S. attorney general was a rockstar politician during his run for president in the 1968 election. After a victorious speech in Los Angeles’ Ambassador

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, April 22. In 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush begins at noon. Around 50,000 people lined up to claim their stake of the over two million acres that were up for grabs in the western portion of the Indian Territory. Initially,

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, April 21. In 1895, the Eidoloscope is introduced to the public, creating one of the first mass media inventions. This device allowed an entire room full of viewers to watch motion pictures as opposed to the kinetoscope, which could only

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, April 20. In 1914, soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private security officers gunned down and killed 21 people living in a tent colony as retaliation for striking against poor labor conditions in coal mines. The colony housed about