On Dec. 12, the art submission period for the Scholastic Art Awards came to a close. All pieces submitted before the deadline will be judged in January of 2023. The winners will be displayed in an art...

On this day, 1968, the very first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7, launched into orbit with three astronauts on board. The three were Walter M. Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham. The mission...

On this day, 1926, Babe Ruth, the Great Bambino, hit three homeruns in a single game of the World Serie to set the record. His team, the Yankees, won the game 10-5 against the St. Louis Cardinals but went...

On this day, 1972, Ford's Model T, the most popular car of the early to mid 1900s, had its production record broken by Volkswagen. This day marks the creation of Volkswagen's 15,007,034th Beetle, with...

On this day, 1968, Representative Rankin Fite, Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, placed the call to the newly established number in Haleyville, Alabama. 1967 saw the Federal Communications...

On this day, 1903, Morris Michtom put his Theodore Roosevelt-inspired children's toy up for sale. With President Roosevelt's permission to use his popular nickname, Michtom coined his bear as the "Teddy...

On this day, 1924, archaeologist Howard Carter and his group unearthed the sarcophagus of Egyptian Pharoh Tutankhamen. The sarcophagus had a stone exterior and contained three coffins within each other....

On this day, 1955, "the mother of the civil rights movement" Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white man on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. At the time, it was required that African-Americans...

On this day, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger became California's 38th governor, and stayed in office until Jan. 3, 2011. He has a renowned career as an actor, having been in hit movies such as The Terminator...