On September 20, 1973, in a high-profile “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, top player Billie Jean King, 29, defeated Bobby Riggs, 55, a former No. 1 ranked male player.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a revolutionary lawyer, longtime advocate for gender equality and public servant who served as a Supreme Court justice for 27 years, died on September 18, 2020 from
When naturalists like John Muir first entered California’s Yosemite Valley in the 19th century, they marveled at the beauty of what they believed to be pristine wilderness untouched by human
In the 1960s, a radicalized Mexican-American movement began to push for a new identification. The Chicano movement, aka El Movimiento, advocated social and political empowerment through chicanism or cultural nationalism.
Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Committee for the Investigation of Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) on September 18, 1973, claiming that he saw an unidentified flying object
In the wee hours of March 4, 1801, John Adams, the second President of the United States, quietly left Washington, DC under cover of darkness. He would not attend the
Beginning in the early morning of September 17, 1862, Civil War Confederate and Union troops clash near Antietam Creek, Md., On the bloodiest day in US military history. The Battle
The US Constitution, written in 1787 and ratified by nine of the original 13 states a year later, is the oldest written constitution in the world. But that doesn’t mean