Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on September 16. Check what happened ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - On this day in 1910, Charles Willard became the first person to fly an airplane in Vermont. Nearly 7 years after the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, Willard delighted the ...

(WKYT) - In the lead-up to America turning 250 years old, we are looking back at every day in ‘This Day In History.’ On this date in 1939, the film named “most influential film of all time,” The ...

Today is the 255th day of 2025. There are 110 days left in the year. 1988: Hurricane Gilbert slams into Jamaica with ...

(WKYT) - In the lead up to America turning 250 years old, we are looking back at every day in ‘This Day In History.’ On this day in American history, in 1884, the first cornerstone for the Statue of ...

Princess Diana, popularly known as the People’s Princess, was killed in a high-speed car crash in Paris on 1997. Her death ...

On September 10, 1942, the U.S. Army Air Forces established the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), later known as the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Over 1,100 women pilots ferried ...

Observed each year on the first Monday of September, Labor Day is also a celebration of the hard-won achievements of America's labor movement.

India celebrates its Independence Day on August 15 each year, remembering the day in 1947 when the country gained freedom from British rule after nearly 200 years. Louis Mountbatten, the last British ...