Today in History

1990 Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal The African American athlete dominated the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, which was held during the reign of Adolf Hitler’s racist Nazi regime. 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experiences a partial meltdown…

1998 Viagra is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Pfizer’s pill was the first drug against male impotence to be approved in the United States. In 2012, the company made 2 billion U.S. Dollars from Viagra alone. 1994 Silvio Berlusconi…

2000 Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia The ex-KGB officer has been lauded for leading Russia out of the 1990 economic crisis and criticized for building a regime that many have described as authoritarian and undemocratic. 1995 The Schengen Agreement enters…

1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first wiki, is launched Ward Cunningham introduced the wiki or user-editable website. Today, Wikipedia is the world’s most well known and widely used wiki. 1988 Thousands of people join the first peaceful demonstrations against the communist regime in…

1999 For the first time in its history, NATO attacks a sovereign country The military alliance bombed Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War – without a UN mandate. 1989 Oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska The mishap resulted…