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Green Day Biography

Green Daypunk rock band Enormously popular punk rock band that developed an enthusiastic and growing following with the independent release Kerplunk (1992), and then exploded on the scene…

Tom Thumb by the Brothers Grimm

Tom Thumb A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning. 'How lonely it is, wife,' said he, as he puffed out a long…

Tom DeLay, 1999 News

52, House majority whip from Texas, grabbed the House floor during the June brouhaha over gun control and violence in the media and blamed popular culture, birth control, and day care — not…

Tom Ridge, 2003 News

former governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as the country's first secretary of homeland security in January. The department, established in 2002 in response to the terrorist attacks on…

Tom Brokaw, 2002 News

news anchor, in June announced plans to retire from NBC Nightly News after the 2004 presidential election. MSNBC anchor Brian Williams will assume the helm. Brokaw, who joined the show in…

Tom Chandler 2001 Deaths

Tom ChandlerAge: 76 longtime Texas A&M baseball coach and major league scout; won 660 games and five conference titles in 26 years with the Aggies; lost only World Series appearance in…

Tom Cheney 2001 Deaths

Tom CheneyAge: 67 Washington Senators pitcher who set the major league record with 21 strikeouts in a 16-inning game on Sept. 12, 1962. The cause of his death was not given.Died: Rome, Ga.,…

Tom Glazer 2003 Deaths

Tom GlazerAge: 88 folk singer who, with Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, and Burl Ives, helped to popularize the genre in the 1940s. Died: Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 2003Althea GibsonG - LRobert Good…

Tom Cruise, 2006 News

actor and producer, engaged in a very nasty and public parting of ways with his studio, Paramount Pictures. Sumner Redstone, the chairman of Paramount's parent company, Viacom, announced the…