Historic moments from pop culture and beyond — one day at a time.
On April 3, 1987, the Chicago Cubs did what teams do with aging, struggling pitchers — they cut their losses. They packaged up 32-year-old Dennis Eckersley, fresh off a dismal 6-11 season with a 4.57 ERA and some very public off-field demons, and shipped him to the Oakland Athletics for three minor leaguers whose names…
Forty-four years ago today, a column of Argentine amphibious vehicles rolled into the streets of Stanley — a quiet, wind-battered capital that most of the world had never heard of. By nightfall on April 2, 1982, the Falkland Islands were under Argentine military occupation, and the clock was ticking on one of the most unlikely,…
April 1, 1984. April Fool’s Day. The cruelest joke the calendar ever played on the music world came not from a prankster, but from a .38 Special revolver — fired by a man who should have loved the person he was shooting. One day before his 45th birthday, Marvin Gaye — the Prince of Soul,…
On March 31, 1999, Warner Bros. dropped a movie that didn’t just blow up the box office — it rewired how an entire generation thought about reality, technology, and what movies could be. Twenty-seven years later, The Matrix still hits differently. If you were old enough to see it opening weekend, you remember walking out…
Forty-five years ago today, on March 30, 1981, the United States came terrifyingly close to losing its 40th president. At 2:27 p.m. on a gray Washington afternoon, six shots rang out on a sidewalk outside the Washington Hilton Hotel — and within seconds, the most powerful man on earth was bleeding in the back of…
On the night of March 28–29, 1984, the Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis went down as one of the most gut-wrenching betrayals in the history of American sports. While the city slept through a late-winter snowstorm, thirteen Mayflower moving trucks quietly rolled into the Owings Mills training facility, packed up decades of football history, and…
March 28, 1990. Richfield Coliseum, Ohio. The Chicago Bulls were in town to face the Cleveland Cavaliers — a team that had been the thorn in Michael Jordan’s side for years. What happened next was not just a win. It was a demolition. A one-man performance so dominant it still stands as the greatest individual…
The Day That Shocked the World On March 26, 1997, police officers responding to an anonymous welfare check discovered one of the most bizarre and heartbreaking crime scenes in American history. Inside a sprawling $1.6 million mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, lay 39 bodies arranged with chilling precision on bunk beds and mattresses. Each…
WikiWikiWeb changed everything about how humans share knowledge online. On March 25, 1995, a programmer named Ward Cunningham launched the first wiki in history on c2.com, creating a revolutionary new way for people to collaborate and edit content together. This wasn’t just another website — it was the birth of collaborative web publishing that would…
If you were alive on March 24, 1989, you probably remember the moment the news broke. A massive oil tanker had run aground in Alaska, and millions of gallons of crude oil were pouring into one of the most pristine marine environments on Earth. The Exxon Valdez disaster didn’t just devastate Prince William Sound —…
On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan sat behind his desk in the Oval Office and delivered a televised address that would reshape the Cold War, terrify the Soviet Union, and earn one of the most famous nicknames in military history. In a speech ostensibly about defense spending, Reagan stunned the world by announcing the…
On March 22, 1997, 14-year-old Tara Lipinski broke Sonja Henie’s 70-year record to become the youngest World Figure Skating Champion in Lausanne, Switzerland.
