This Day In History

Did you know there is a day dedicated to the Ding-A-Ling? And today is that day! So, what is a Ding-A-Ling anyway?

Project Bullet set a transcontinental speed record. A Vought F8U Crusader flew from California to New York at 725.55 mile per hour. Who was the Marine pilot?

Check out these pictures of the beach with troops taken 73 years ago compared to the same spot today. It's pretty amazing.

On July 16, 1986, Parton opened her theme park, Dollywood, in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

Corned Beef and Cabbage? Not in Ireland. What did the Irish use for their holiday feast? Wait for it — BACON or lamb.

There are only a few events that happen in a person's life where they always remember what they were doing and where they were when they happened.

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1939 – Lou Gehrig establishes a major-league baseball record by playing his 2,130th consecutive game (More info) 1945 – The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin during World War Two (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1803 – France sells the Louisiana territory and adjoining lands to the US as part of the Louisiana Purchase (More info) 1939 – Commercial television makes its official US debut, broadcasting from the Empire State Building at the New York World’s Fair (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln (More info) 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1861 – Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the US Army in order to command the forces of Virginia (More info) 1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie isolate radium (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the ‘Canterbury Tales’ for the first time at the court of Richard II (More info) 1961 – A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro (More info)

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1943 – The hallucinogenic effects of LSD are discovered (More info) 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the ‘CBS Evening News,’ going on to become “the most trusted man in America” (More info) 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens ...