President Ronald Reagan ends his first trip to Moscow, and his fourth summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, on notes of both frustration and triumph.
Although there were no breakthroughs or agreements on substantive issues, the “Great Communicator,” as Reagan was known in the United States, was a hit... Mark Felt’s family ends 30 years of speculation, identifying Felt, the former FBI assistant director, as “Deep Throat,” the secret source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal.
Thirty years after its release, John Lydon—better known as Johnny Rotten—offered this assessment of the song that made the Sex Pistols the most reviled and revered figures in England in the spring of 1977: “There are not many songs written over baked beans at the breakfast table that went on...
Upon his election in 1980, Reagan had abandoned Nixon, Ford... planes bomb an ammunition depot at Hoi Jan, west of Hanoi, and try again to drop the Than Hoa highway bridge.
On this day in 1997, Ila Borders becomes the first woman to pitch in a minor league baseball game, when she enters a game in relief for the St. Mike Veeck, son of famous baseball impresario and promoter Bill Veeck, owned the Saints, and... These raids were part of Operation Rolling Thunder, which had begun in March 1965. Johnson had ordered the sustained bombing of North Vietnam to interdict North...
During May 1862, the Army of the Potomac, under the command of George B.
Mc Clellan, slowly advanced up the James Peninsula after sailing down the Chesapeake Bay by...