George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...

Standard Oil, later Amoco, built its Wood River refinery in 1907, leveraging the location's transportation and water ...

In September, Patty Hearst was captured by the FBI after being kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army. In December, Doug Henning entertained 50 million viewers with a live television ...

On this date in 1974, Patty Hearst, 19, was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif., by members of the Symbionese ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launched ‘The Facebook,’ a social media platform, which would go on to become the world’s ...

1783: The Great Siege of Gibraltar launched by France and Spain against the British colony during American War of Independence is lifted after 3 years and 7 months. 1812: Lord Byron makes his maiden ...