1983-04-25 Andropov writes to the U.S. student Samantha Smith
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION |
| 1781 |
| Cornwallis retreats from Guilford Courthouse » |
| AUTOMOTIVE |
| 2001 On this day in 2001, 44-year-old Italian race car driver Michele Alboreto is killed on a track in Germany during a test drive. Alboreto collected five Grand Prix wins on the Formula One (F1) circuit, where he competed during the 1980s and early 1990s, and also claimed victory at the... Read More |
| 1864 |
| Confederates overwhelm Union at Marks' Mills » |
| COLD WAR |
| 1983 |
| Andropov writes to an American fifth-grader » |
| CRIME |
| 1989 |
| A father is exonerated after 21 years » |
| DISASTER |
| 1980 |
| Air tragedy hits Canary Islands » |
| GENERAL INTEREST |
| 1859 |
| Ground broken for Suez Canal » |
| 1990 |
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The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope, a long-term space-based observatory, into a low orbit around Earth.The space telescope, conceived in the 1940s, designed in the 1970s, and built in the 1980s, was designed to give astronomers an unparalleled view of the solar system,... Read More |
| HOLLYWOOD |
| 1995 |
| Ginger Rogers dies » |
| LITERARY |
| 1719 |
| Robinson Crusoe is published » |
| MUSIC |
| 1917 |
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On April 25, 1917, jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Virginia. She was called “The First Lady of Song," an honor whose meaning is captured in a compliment paid to her by the great composer Ira Gershwin: “I never knew how good our songs were until I heard... Read More |
| OLD WEST |
| 1831 |
| A play lionizing Davy Crockett opens » |
| PRESIDENTIAL |
| 1947 |
| Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley » |
| SPORTS |
| 1964 |
| Maple Leafs win third Stanley Cup in a row » |
| VIETNAM WAR |
| 1964 |
| Johnson announces appointment of Westmoreland » |
| 1972 |
| North Vietnamese Army close to cutting South Vietnam in two » |
| WORLD WAR I |
| 1915 |
| Allies begin invasion of Gallipoli » |
| WORLD WAR II |
| 1945 |
| Americans and Russians link up, cut Germany in two » |
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