State health officials say two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan. They are the first confirmed deaths in the U.S. related to the microscopic parasite.
Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.
Wildlife officials are banning fishing during certain hours on rivers and streams across the U.S. West, following an exceptionally dry winter and amid widespread drought.
Frontiersman “Wild Bill” Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Jack McCall, who was later hanged.
Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, went on an armed rampage at the University of Texas in Austin that killed 14 people, most of whom were shot by Whitman while he was perched in the clock tower of the main campus building.
A SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers last year. The impact will carve out a crater
Apollo 15 crew members David Scott and James Irwin became the first astronauts to use a lunar rover on the surface of the moon.
A Montana slipped and impaled himself on his trekking pole while hiking Froze-to-Death Plateau. The pole missed all his major organs.
Three electric grids in India collapsed in a cascade, cutting power to 620 million people in the world’s biggest blackout.
An investigation has turned up allegations of sexual misconduct against nearly 50 people who were formerly affiliated with Interlochen Center for the Arts.