13+ hour, 8+ min ago   (497+ words) Today is Tuesday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2026 with 352 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. In 1910, radio pioneer and electron tube inventor Lee Deforest arranged…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (513+ words) Today is Tuesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2026 with 359 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. In 1838, in Morristown, N.J., Samuel F.B. Morse and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (420+ words) Today is Friday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2026 with 363 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. In 1788, Georgia ratified the Constitution, the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (430+ words) Dec. 23 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1620, construction began on the first permanent European settlement in New England. It was one week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Harbor in present-day Massachusetts. In 1783, Gen. George Washington resigned his commission…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (729+ words) Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Sunday marked the 84th anniversary of Japan's dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor. Only a handful of survivors are left. And very few Americans were alive then. Hence, Pearl Harbor as past wars and battles, is passing into the distant…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (557+ words) NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Mad Men and Avengers alum John Slattery says Nuremberg -- his fact-based, post-World War II legal drama about those seeking justice in the face of abject cruelty -- is a story that people can learn from and relate…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (579+ words) Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A federal agency wants to exhume unknown servicemembers who died in the Pearl Harbor attack in Honolulu, Hawai, including on the battleship Arizona, 84 years ago. The Defense Department's Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency announced it…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (392+ words) Nov. 23 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1889, the first jukebox was placed in service in the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco. In 1890, the independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was separated from the Netherlands. In 1919, the first play-by-play football…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (396+ words) Nov. 12 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1892, the first professional football game was played in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny Athletic Association defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0. Touchdowns at the time were worth 4 points. In 1893, the Durand Line which marks the…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (432+ words) Nov. 11 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump mentioned political correctness, President Joe Biden and renaming Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery after laying a wreath for the holiday. Trump said he plans to rename the holiday celebrated on Nov. 11 as "Victory Day…...