This Day

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...