In 1901, daredevil Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. In 1929, $5 billion in ...

Every day has a history all its own, full of triumphs, tragedies, breakthroughs and turning points. On this day, October 26, ...

Four months after a multi-national conference in San Francisco drafted its charter, the United Nations officially began on ...

On October 25, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced in Decatur, Georgia for protesting segregation at a department ...

On Oct. 23, 1915, an estimated 25,000 women marched in New York City demanding the right to vote throughout the United States ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - On this day in history, October 24, 1954, then WSAU TV Channel 7 broadcast for the first time. At the ...

On Oct. 25, 1929, during the teapot dome scandal, Albert B. Fall, who served as Secretary of the Interior in President Warren G. Harding’ cabinet, is found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office.

The Oct. 18 No Kings protests exceeded the previous June 14 No Kings protests by about 2 million people, organizers say.

On October 24, 1957, actor Bing Crosby married entertainment columnist Kathryn Grant at St. Anne’s Catholic Church.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - On this date in 1956, Eastern Kentucky native Dwight Yoakam was born. He comes from Pikeville, KY.

Science history On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular ...