On this date in history:

In 1900, Dr. Walter Reed and his medical team began a successful campaign to eradicate yellow fever in the Panama Canal Zone.

In 1917, the first troops of the American ...Read More

Those born on this date include:

- Reputed baseball pioneer Abner Doubleday in 1819
- physicist/inventor William Thomson Kelvin in 1824
- Nobel literature laureate Pearl Buck in 1892
- aircraft ...Read More

Today is Wednesday, June 26, the 178th day of 2024 with 188 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are Mercury and Venus.

On June 26th, 1819, the bicycle was patented.

A thought for the day: Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. ... I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness ...Read More

On this date in history:

In 1876, U.S. Army Gen. George Custer and his force of 208 men were killed by Chief Sitting Bull's Sioux warriors at Little Big Horn in Montana.

In 1942, U.S. Army Gen. Dwight...Read More