Daily History

This Day in History: 1885

The dismantled Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor from France.

This Day in History: 1963

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

This Day in History: 1917

Congress passes the Espionage Act during World War I.

This Day in History: 1951

The U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the first commercial digital computer.

This Day in History: 1895

Emile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race.

This Day in History: 1940

Edsel Ford agrees to manufacture 9,000 Rolls-Royce engines for warplanes.

This Day in History: 1979

Actor John Wayne dies at age 72.

This Day in History: 2015

Juan Felipe Herrera, a prize-winning author and the son of migrant farmworkers, whose mother recited poetry and taught him songs from the Mexican Revolution, became America's first Latino poet laureate.