12th February 2012. Ann Pettway admitted to stealing a baby from a hospital in New York City in 1987. The victim was Carlina White who had...

11th February 1977. New banknote denomination of the value of 20 Naira, which was the highest denomination in the country as at then was iss...

  9th February 2009. A storehouse of thirty Egyptian mummies was unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb. These mummies were found in the exc...

8th February 1910. The Boy Scouts of America, which is modeled after the Boy Scouts of England, was incorporated.

7th February 1971. Women in Switzerland were granted the right to vote today. There are some countries that still continue restricting women...

  6th February 1971. Apollo 14 Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon.

  5th February 2002. American John Walker Lindh who was captured on November 25, during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan while fighting for ...

 Today in History 4th February 2004. Facebook was founded.

  3rd February 1995. American astronaut Eileen Marie Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle.

  2nd February 1990. South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk lifted the 30-year ban on the African National Congress, which resulte...

1st February 1958. Egypt and Syria were proclaimed "United Arab Republic" and ratified in nationwide plebiscites (vote) later that...

  31st January 2000. Nicknamed "Dr Death" and considered Britain's most prolific killer,  Family General Practitioner Dr Harol...

30th January 1982. The first personal computer virus "Elk Cloner" was created by 15-year-old Richard Skrenta as a practical joke. ...

  29th January 1886. A patent was given to Karl Benz who had created the first Mercedes-Benz. This first Benz model of car was known as the...

28th January 1956. Singer Elvis Presley made his first ever television appearance on Television in the musical variety program Stage Show si...

  27th January 1967. During a simulation of a launch, U.S. astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee perished in a...

25th January 1947. Thomas Goldsmith patented the first cathode ray video game.

  24th January 1835. The Malê Revolt (where slaves staged a Rebellion to end slavery) was instrumental in ending slavery in Brazil

22nd January 1970. Boeing 747 takes off on its first scheduled flight from New York to  London.

  20th January 2009. Barrack Obama became America's first ever black president.