Author: mindgames

This Day in History: 1978

Louise Joy Brown, the world's first IVF baby, is born in England.

This Day in History: 1998

Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is released in theaters.

This Day in History: 1982

Actor Vic Morrow is killed in a helicopter crash on the set of Twilight Zone.

This Day in History: 1916

A bomb at a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco kills 10 people.

This Day in History: 1861

Confederate forces turn back Union troops in the first major battle of the Civil War.

This Day in History: 1976

The Viking 1 lander becomes the first spacecraft to land safely on Mars.

This Day in History: 1956

The U.S. withdraws its offer of aid to Egypt for the Aswan Dam.

This Day in History: 1925

Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of Mein Kampf.