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October Current Events 2023: U.S. News

Top of Page World News | Disaster News | Science & Technology News | Current Events This Week The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you…

Thorpe Speed

All-American Jim Thorpe also happened to be Native American by Gerry Brown Jim Thorpe competes in the pentathalon competition in Stockholm, 1912. (Source: Allsport) Related Links Olympics…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 21, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 20, 1806June 22, 1806June 21, 1806 Saturday June 21st 1806. We collected our horses early set out on our return to the flatts. we all felt…

Significant Recordings of 1999

Tori AmosAustin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me SoundtrackBackstreet BoysBeckBen Folds FiveBlack CrowesBlondieGarth BrooksThe CardigansMariah CareyThe Chemical BrothersContinental DriftersChris…

1931–1940

1931—St. Louis N.L. 4 (Gabby Street); Philadelphia A.L. 3 (Connie Mack). WP—St. Louis: Hallahan (2, 5), Grimes (3, 7); Phila.: Grove (1, 6), Earnshaw (4). LP—St. Louis: Derringer (1, 6),…

Goals Against Average

Average determined by games played through 1942-43 season and by minutes played since then. Minimum of 15 games from 1917-18 season through 1925-26; minimum of 25 games since 1926-27 season…

Whitewater, in U.S. history

(Encyclopedia) Whitewater, popular name for a failed 1970s Arkansas real estate venture by the Whitewater Development Corp., in which Gov. (later President) Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham…

Performing Arts Timeline

534 B.C.Thespis wins the first public contest for tragic poets in Greece, and the term thespian derives from his name. He also introduces masks, which become a staple of Greek and Roman…