On this day in 1913, Rosa Parks is born. She is best known for getting arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.   Fortunately, the unjust segregation laws that she was protesting would soon come to an end through peaceful acts of civil disobedience such as her own, combined with non-violent protests led by men such as Martin Luther King, Jr.   As you know, at that point in history, passengers were segregated aboard buses in places such as

On this day in 1959, musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (“the Big Bopper”) are killed in a plane crash. The terrible tragedy has come to be known as “the Day the Music Died.”   None of it would have occurred but for the “Tour from Hell.”   Holly, Valens, and Richardson were then on that 24-day concert tour, officially known as the Winter Dance Party Tour. Along with Dion and the Belmonts and Frankie Sardo, they would travel across Wisconsin, Minnesota,

On this day in 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first sustained, powered flight of a heavier-than-air machine under the complete control of the pilot. You might know the headline about their history-making flight at Kitty Hawk, but do you know the rest of their story? The Wright brothers’ story is a wonderful example of the entrepreneurial spirit that has made America great! The brothers’ interest in aviation started early. Their father once gave them a rubber-band po

On this day in 1938, the “race of the century” is held at Pimlico Race Course. The contest between two thoroughbred racing horses—Seabiscuit and War Admiral—gripped the nation in a way that might surprise modern Americans. The country was then in the midst of the Great Depression, and horse racing was a welcome distraction. Moreover, this particular race featured a faceoff between the old, Eastern establishment and the newer thoroughbred community in the West. Would the esta