This Day

Columbus Day, celebrated each year on the second Monday of October, is a federal holiday honoring Christopher Columbus’s bold 1492...

On October 8, 1996, the Fox News Channel officially launched in the United States, a pivotal moment in conservative media...

On October 7, 1571, the naval Battle of Lepanto took place in the Gulf of Patras, where a Holy League...

On this day in 2003, more than 100,000 pro-life and pro-family advocates converged on Warsaw, Poland, for a massive "March...

On September 30, 1976, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first Hyde Amendment, marking one of the earliest and...

On September 29, 1789, the United States Congress formally created what would become the permanent United States Army. Although militias...

On September 26, 1888, Thomas Stearns Eliot, known as T.S. Eliot, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, an event that...

On September 25, 1986, Antonin Scalia received his judicial commission as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, following...

On September 24, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) into law, a landmark piece of...