Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...

The De Havilland Comet’s first flight in 1952 marked the dawn of the jet-airliner era and transformed commercial aviation.

Domestic air travel was introduced on December 10, 1958, in the United States. National Airlines operated the first domestic ...

1958: Shortly before classes were to be dismissed, a fire broke out in the basement of Catholic school Our Lady of the Angels in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. The fire swept through the school of ...

In 1958, a remote Alaskan fjord produced the tallest wave in recorded history when a 90-million-ton slab of mountain rock ...

Tommy Burns fights to a 20-round draw with light heavyweight Jack O’Brien in a world heavyweight title bout in Los Angeles. 1929 — Ernie Nevers rushes for six touchdowns and kicks ...

Every day has a history attached to it: small moments, significant changes, births, deaths and surprises we might not know. What happened on November 27, then? On this date in history, the world ...

On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, riding in the same car as Kennedy, was ...

A monument honoring Oklahoma City civil rights leader Clara Luper and participants in the 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in was damaged by vandalism, authorities say. The monument’s developers say it now ...

1958 – Milwaukee Braves second baseman Red Schoendienst is diagnosed as having tuberculosis and will appear in just five games in 1959. 1997 – The Braves trade Fred McGriff to the expansion Tampa Bay ...

Harley-Davidson's history is as storied as that of American manufacturing. Its story begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1903, when William Harley, along with his friends, a trio of brothers named ...

The Impala was the automobile that made Chevrolet the best-selling carmaker in the United States for decades. The moniker's popularity sparked in 1958, when Chevrolet added the African gazelle name to ...