Referred to as "Black Tuesday", it's the date in 1929 that saw the final collapse of the stock market
John Marshall handed down the decision in this landmark case Feb. 24, 1803
Many still remember that it was on this December date in 1941 that the U.S. officially entered World War II
(I'm Aaron Brown of CNN.) One of my first on-air assignments for CNN was on this fateful date, reporting from a rooftop vantage point
She was elected Britain's Prime Minister May 4, 1979
Escaped slaves in the 1850s & draft dodgers in the 1960s mainly headed to this country
On Feb. 15, 1901 Carry Nation wrecked one of these establishments with a hatchet
Seen here at a Senate hearing, he was the first U.S. Attorney General to be convicted of a felony
In the first census conducted in 1790, this state, with nearly 692,000 people, was the most populous
A fire in 1851 destroyed some 35,000 volumes in its collection