January 4, 2021 This Day in History: Jan. 4 President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
January 3, 2021 This Day in History: Jan. 3 The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Apple Computer is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Makkula Jr.
January 2, 2021 This Day in History: Jan. 2 Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial on charges of kidnapping and murdering the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
January 1, 2021 This Day in History: Jan. 1 The first edition of the Gothic novel “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” by English author Mary Shelley, 20, is published. President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries overthrow Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista.
December 31, 2020 This Day in History: Dec. 31 Roberto Clemente is killed when a plane he chartered and was traveling on to bring relief supplies to earthquake-devastated Nicaragua crashes.
December 30, 2020 This Day in History: Dec. 30 Vladimir Lenin proclaims the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
December 29, 2020 This Day in History: Dec. 29 Word reaches the United States of the execution of Saddam Hussein. (Because of the time difference, it is the morning of Dec. 30 in Iraq when the hanging takes place.)
December 28, 2020 This Day in History: Dec. 28 Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American “test-tube” baby, is born.
December 27, 2020 This Day in History: Dec. 27 Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners would be held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld announces
December 26, 2020 This Day in History: Dec. 26 Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in her Colorado home.