Australian-born singer Rick Springfield had been largely quiet on American music charts following his 1971 debut single ...

1963 — Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American tennis player to be named in the US Davis Cup team. 1970 — Willie Stargell of Pittsburgh hit three doubles and two home runs to power the Pirates to a ...

New York’s Mel Ott hits his 500th home run in a 9-2 victory over the Boston Braves at the Polo Grounds. Only Babe Ruth with 714 and Jimmie Foxx with ...

In April 1945, Stalin launched the opening assault on Berlin by turning his two greatest commanders, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan ...

On March 4, 2026, a US Navy attack submarine ambushed and sank Iran’s IRS Dena in the Indian Ocean, killing more than 80 ...

1930 — Lou Gehrig drove in eight runs with a grand slam and two doubles, and the New York Yankees outlasted the Boston Red Sox 14-13. 1932 — Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium opened and Lefty Grove and ...

Quentin Tarantino regretted casting Lawrence Tierney in Reservoir Dogs; Tierney's most popular movie, Dillinger, is currently ...

On July 23, 2026, the CDC reported that the number of measles cases in the US surpassed the total for the whole of 2025.

Scroll long enough, and eventually a sound will penetrate the amorphous fog of noise coming from your phone and nestle itself deep into your psyche. Sometimes it arrives attached to AI-generated ...

Here’s our soundtrack to yet another tumultuous year in the making. Springsteen offered up a protest rallying cry against Trump fascism; Charli xcx gave us a droll, doom-ridden 2026 time capsule; Luke ...

MrBeast has broken yet another record. Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, hit 500 million subscribers on YouTube Friday, becoming the first creator ever to reach that milestone. Naturally, Donaldson ...